slashed dream isn not a horror movie and isn not a revenge thriller and isn not a romance and isn not social commentary and it and well and not much of anything . first the good news . pretty much all of the people involve in this continued working and some do well . robert englund and of course and make the elm street film . the editor go on to be nominate for an oscar for die hard . and the movie do have some part that be fitfully entertaining . the bad news be that it dull . it dull a dishwater and and at an hour and fourteen minute and seem endless . it not a musical but it have song and lot of them . every once in a while the plot screech to a halt while a young woman sings ( fairly well ) and then two or three minute later the plot get back in gear . the script be the main culprit . we start on a college campus . marshall and a big shot in his fraternity and be date jenny and who look as much like ali mcgraw in love story ( a college student name jenny in that hugely popular film ) a possible without hire ali mcgraw . jenny be friend with robert and who be strong but sensitive . jenny have get a letter from michael and ( robert englund and in a good performance ) and a man who and like thoreau and have go to the wood to find the meaning of life . in psychology class the professor ( peter brown from big valley ) and the student discuss value . then the scene change and we never see the professor again despite his prominent billing in the opening title . at a party marshall humiliate a pledge and treat jenny like dirt . finally everyone and include nice girl tina and head out to visit michael . after an incident of road rage jenny break up with marshall and only she and robert go on to look for michael . the other character and subplots be abandon . after many scene of drive they come to a small town and go into a general store own by rudy valee and whose career have be revive a few year prior to this film by his work on broadway in how to succeed in business without really try and the film version of that show . valee sings and talk about the old day of show business and then warn robert and jenny that they shouldn not hike to michael cabin because they might wind up be hunt . he try to sell them a knife and they decline and and another subplot lie in the dust . rudy valee dialog would seem to set u up for a blair witch adventure situation almost a quarter of a century before that film be make . instead the story go in more mundane direction . and valee and seventy some year old and be the best thing about the film represent this would be a zero star film but it get two for valee and two for robert englund play a nice person . we watch endless footage of robert and jenny walking and walk . they climb a steep hill while a terrible song call animal be clumsy too remind u how humorless what happening be . they get to michael cabin but he not home and so they go skinny dipping . at this point screenwriter or actor james keach realize that he give u ton and ton of exposition but the title slash dream be not appropriate to the soap opera romance he write so he introduce two psycho to menace the lovebird . keach ( who at this point in life look a lot like buster keaton ) play one of them and overacts . the other one get far less dialog . hey and if i would write this i would have give myself the best line and too . robert and jenny get back to the cabin and have a firelit love scene and then the psycho intrude and do the thing psycho be suppose to do in movie like this . they have no motivation for this and but the screenplay say they do it . robert and jenny survive but be much the worse for wear . michael arrives and they tell him what happen . since we have watch random story element from deliverance and death wish and and straw dog we figure that the third act will be bloody retribution . this would provide a nice character arc for these intellectual young people who seem so introspective in nature . instead robert go after the psycho with an ax and have a fight and they leave and and michael tell him they would not be back . he have no way to know that and but it what the script say . in the cabin jenny read ( i think it from the prophet and which everyone be still read in 1975 ) about pain . another skinny dip scene and then the lovebird start back toward their everyday life sadder but wiser . the closing title run over a freeze frame of the lovebird and jenny ali mcgraw style hair artfully backlit by the setting sun . the romantic triangle on campus could have be a whole film . the idealism or materialism theme introduce in the campus scene could have be a whole film . the old time entertainer leave the bright light of hollywood to live in a wide place in the road could have be a whole film . the theme of a man turn his back on society to live a life of contemplation could have be a excellent film and with jenny and robert the snake in his eden ultimately force him to make a hard choice . the two ( possibly inbred ) madman be a cliché in 1975 and should have stay on the cut floor . i love horror movie and especially the friday the 13th and halloween type where i can shout don not go upstairs . to character and royally confuse my family because i watch movie with headphone after midnight and we live in a one story house . watch slashed dream i want to shout at the screenwriter and pick one story and tell it .