First of all I wanted to see "Tracking" aka "Ghost Soldier" by Pierre B. Reinhard badly for many years. IMDb's synopsis sounded extremely sleazy: "Four teenage girls are terrorized by the ghost of a sex-mad American soldier who wants to rape them." Can't be bad. Ghostly rapist in army fatigues, sexual violence and teenage girls showing their naked flesh.
Lisa, Natalie and Stephanie are teenage girls who are staying in a huge mansion of Lisa's parents. Aunt Christina takes care of them. But during the absence of Christina three girls begin to have sexual hallucinations of phantom soldier raping and abusing them. Lisa is raped with a champagne bottle, Natalie is attacked with a razor, etc. Mysterious ghost soldier is everywhere. He writes "Sex Is Life" on the mirror in Natalie's bedroom. He is never satisfied and carefully stalks his youthful and fertile prey. He is the figment of aroused imagination.
"Tracking" offers plenty of sleazy atmosphere, a bit of nudity and very intriguing concept of sexual awakening. The scenes of sexual violence are implied and suggestive, though. The first person perspective of the stalker and his heavy breathing reminded me various American slasher movies. The storyline is hardly coherent and the characters are truly psychotic. They are suffering from paranoia and erotic Folie à deux. The score is quite atmospheric and several scenes are quite unsettling and unnerving. However don't expect outrageously repulsive exploitation sickie - "Ghost Soldier" is a subtle flick with memorably vile central concept. 8 paratroopers out of 10.
My copy has Spanish-dubbed dialog and English subtitles. It runs 77 minutes.
