Extra helpings of off-kilter and off-key melodrama sink Michael Biehn‘s bewildering directorial debut The Victim, a nasty little down-and-dirty thriller about a murder, a panicked stripper on the lam, and a trio of guys trying to sort out the truth of her story and protect their own skins. Beset with many of the problems of low-budget indie flicks but none of the narrative cleverness, stylistic fleetness of foot or other mechanisms of coping with them, this grindhouse-type offering may find a certain cult-ish reception amongst longtime fans of the veteran genre actor, but otherwise disappear without a trace. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here. (Anchor Bay, R, 83 minutes)