Roberto Infascelli's 1973 La polizia sta a guardare a.k.a. The Great Kidnapping
terrific score by Stelvio Cipriani
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ScoJo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:34 pm That painting of Blood Feast is gonna haunt my dreams.....He definitely haunts mine. The "little" bastard loves to climb onto my neck while I'm sleeping and sometimes have dreams of choking or gasping for air, then I wake up realizing he's laying across my throat. At 13 lbs he's not light.
inksb wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:38 pm13lbs??ScoJo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:34 pm That painting of Blood Feast is gonna haunt my dreams.....He definitely haunts mine. The "little" bastard loves to climb onto my neck while I'm sleeping and sometimes have dreams of choking or gasping for air, then I wake up realizing he's laying across my throat. At 13 lbs he's not light.
ScoJo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:42 pmLol.inksb wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:38 pm13lbs??ScoJo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:34 pm That painting of Blood Feast is gonna haunt my dreams.....He definitely haunts mine. The "little" bastard loves to climb onto my neck while I'm sleeping and sometimes have dreams of choking or gasping for air, then I wake up realizing he's laying across my throat. At 13 lbs he's not light.
inksb wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:36 pm That's been on my list to watch for a while. What are you thoughts on it @scojo?That was a very welcome surprise!
ScoJo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:50 pmWell that just made this shoot up my list of films to watch. And I completely agree Death Dorm is a perfect title. Plus the typeface they chose for it looks incredible. Looks like Synapse released the bluray of the uncensored directors cut in the US.inksb wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:36 pm That's been on my list to watch for a while. What are you thoughts on it @scojo?That was a very welcome surprise!
I've obviously heard the name for years, and have the soundtrack LP which is great, Chris Young's first score. But I'd never seen any version of the movie and man, this restored Bluray 'Director's Cut' (basically the first edit of the film before it was sent to the MPAA/hacked to pieces and title changed) was definitely the best way to first experience it and a real treat!
As you likely know it was made as a student project - instead of shooting an arty film school short for their graduation film, the twenty-ish director's shot a full slasher film as a calling card and handed it in to their tutors. Amazing. It was shot on 35mm but actually looks very much like blown up 16mm here - like the first blu release of Evil Dead really. Very grungy and grainy and down n dirty looking. It's fantastic. The film itself is a really enjoyable early 80s slasher, fits right alongside stuff like The Mutilator (which I also love) and Blood Rage. The last act is pretty damn suspensful, with a couple of great WTF turns of plot. And the kills are surprisingly grim and gory! Two in particular elicited a little 'woah, seriously!?' from me, since I just wasn't expecting such gnarly, graphic scenes, done really well. Pretty brutal! You also get a first look at lovely Daphne Zuniga, which is of course very welcome.
Adding with Chris Young's barnstorming orchestral score to the mix (somewhere between Herrmann's and Donaggio's DePalma work) this was just a fun fun 80minutes!
Oh and for my money, the director's original title is killer and by far the best they came up with. Death Dorm. Perfect. Why would you fuck with that?
ScoJo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 2:36 pm Psycho Goreman in theatres/VOD/Shudder now!I am going to watch this tonight. I might start with Allice Sweet Alice or Slumber Party Massacre as I have seen a lot of recent viewings of those on here. I haven't seen Alice and I forgot if I have ever seen Slumber Party. Probably has been 20 years :-)
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This is a day-one watch for me, planning to do so this evening - anyone else excited? From Astron 6/team behind The Void, Manborg and Father's Day amongst others.
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