i just saw this stinky old boiler on tv . best watch with a very large flagon of dr jurd jungle juice at hand and this exploitorific cheese fest be hilariously bad . on the ( very slim ) plus side and raquel be in her physical prime and she look good and and you get to see a fair bit of her and since she play a go go dancer while she have great leg and that for sure . there also some minor interest for screen buff in the footage of los angeles ca . 69 and and in spot actor in minor part who go on to good thing . veteran thesp ron rifkin ( brother and sister ) deliver a toe curl early performance a sailor the faggot junkie barman who rat raquel out to the bad guy . you might also recognise the gun tot security guard in the hit and run scene it a very early appearance by gordon jump and who give such a lovely performance in soap a piece of chelief tinkler . the plot of flareup and such a it be and follow the travail of an exotic dancer ( welch ) on the run from her murderous ex husband ( luke askew ) . this turkey be classic production line hollywood sludge a paint by number script and pedestrian direction and hokey shot and edits and effect and ultra cheesy stock music and plywood set and and performance to match . the cast be a uniformly dreadful a the screenplay . although raquel be capable of fair performance in the right vehicle and this wheezy old clunker be so bad that she doesn not really stand a chance and and neither do the audience . one of my favourite moment occur when raquel awake up in the hospital and see the vega cop who pursue her murderous ex and and ask how do you get here . to which he of course reply in a plane . oh the humanity . and you would not be able to take your eye off the doctor ( michael rougas ) who have what might well be one of the very bad walk ons in the long sad history of bad cameo . i do not think i have ever see anyone stand in one spot so badly before . raquel love interest joe ( james stacy ) amble through the film with a fixed look that somewhere between bemuse and embarrass and no wonder . this bomb put the cast through just about every made for tv cliché in the book and from raquel spectacularly dreadful turn in the dreadful nightmare montage and to the pure schlock of the romantic horse ride along leo carillo beach . spoiler warning just about the only interesting thing in the whole film be the denouement and in which raquel finally get her own back and and hilariously enact the title and by set the baddie on fire . whoever the stunt guy be really earn his money on this one he go up like yorba linda in a heatwave . yet even this fairly spectacular scene be compromise by the fact that one of the crew move into shot near the end . there be so many crappy thing about flareup that it oddly compel while i find yourself wonder if this could be one of the bad film i have ever see make . the answer seem to be a resounding yes . until i saw the film that follow it and roger corman mega trashy cage heat classic the big doll house and which take awful to a whole new level . i can heartily recommend these two shlockers a a double bill . you will laugh yourself silly .