Mantis in Lace (1968)

As any recovering graduate of the ’60s will readily declare, drugs kill. The really nasty thing about dope is that in certain instances--such as those exploited to thrilling and alarming effect in Mantis in Lace (1968)--the ingesting of illegal substances is fatal to innocent abstainers who didn’t even take anything! A go-go dancing, free-love stripper uses her work environment as a dating pool. Her bag is to select a lucky stud from the crowd ogling her epidermal delights and drag him back to an abandoned warehouse for after-hours depravity. One chosen swain unwisely slips the seductress a tab of LSD. She freaks out and stabs the generous fellow to death. What a trip! effuses the frying ecdysiast, who naturally becomes addicted to dropping acid and slicing up her lovers. Though compelling and attractive, this woman is not recommended as a role model.