Tense but violent film about a tough detective named Lou Torrey (Charles Bronson) who from New York is transferred in the underworlds of Los Angeles and uncovers a perfectly executed scheme carried out by a Sicilian gangster (Martin Balsam) to utilize Vietnam vets (Stuart Margolin , among others) to murder all his enemies in a mass killing , rerun of the 30's "Sicilian Vespers" when the former generation of Sicilian mobsters were all murdered on a single day by orders Lucky Luciano . Lou Torrey gets numerous tracks that something big occurs.This exciting film contains suspense, noisy action-packed drama, intrigue, thrills and lots of violence . Interesting screenplay Gerald Wilson from the book A complete state of death by John Gardner .This is a formula two-fisted cop stuff in the Vigilante mould . Bronson with his usual stoic acting displays efficiently his weapons such as Dirty Harry style and killing mercilessly nasties . Bronson as wealthy and cold cop who takes the law on his own hands offers the sort of monolithic acting as always . It's certainly thrilling , though the morality may be questionable , even in this time, as the spectators were clearly on the top cop Bronson's side . Packs thrilling multiple shootouts staged in a remote location on Mojave desert . As the picture emerges as a series of spectacular set-pieces , each perfectly realized ; the best of theses are the chase scenes between Charles Bronson-Paul Koslo , the busting on the desert and the Mafiosi slaughter with subsequent climax final . Furthermore, appears a nice secondary cast as Norman Fell as assistant cop , Ralph Waite as obstinate police , Paul Koslo as heinous hoodlum ,John Ritter in his film debut, Charles Tyner in minor role, Stuart Margolin as Vietnam veteran and Martin Balsam as mafioso chief. In addition , an atmospheric musical score composed, orchestrated and performed by Roy Budd .This motion picture is professionally directed by Michael Winner though passionless , such as the successive films with his main star, Charles Bronson. In the mid-70 Winner had great commercial hit , Death Wish , a box office success he repeated when badly in need of another big hit smash with the sequel , but both of whom , Bronson and Winner, looked increasingly cold , clinic and mechanical in the later years of their partnership . The worst sequels in which Kersey goes on to torture robbers, all of them inferior and the violence could be deemed excessive, are the following : Death wish II by Michael Winner with Jill Ireland and Vincent Gardenia, Death wish III again by Winner with Ed Lauter and Deborah Raffin . Subsequently Michael Winner career was failed , alternating some hit as the sentinel and various flops as Firepower,The big sleep,The wicked lady, Appointed with death, A chorus of disapproval, Bullseye and of course The stone killer that got a mediocre box office . Rating : average but is indispensable ,essential and well worth watching for Charles Bronson fans.
Dumb, dumb...dumb horror movie ONLY enjoyable IF you manage to totally ignore the whole concept that is....well...rather dumb! "Brainscan" is the name of a hi-tech video game that places the player inside the mind of a serial killer. Bound to a time-limit, Michael Bower (Edward Furlong) has to commit a motiveless murder without leaving evidence or witnesses. All very exciting, of course, until the next morning when Michael finds out that surprise surprise a real murder took place in his neighborhood, identical to the one he interactively committed. Overcome with fear and denial, he loses all contact with the outside world and becomes more and more dependent on Trickster; the sinister host of the game. Despite being such a oh yes dumb film, this "Brainscan" is rather well-made and involving. The eerie tune is excellent, the opening sequences (showing Michael's returning nightmare of his mother dying in a road-accident) is atmospheric and the supportive characters are smoothly drawn. I particularly liked Frank Langella's cop-character Hayden. He's a fatigue man who refers to Michael as the class-misfit and never raises the tone of his voice, not even when the killer eventually stands in front of him. The visual effects were too hectic for me, but there is some good old-fashioned low budget gore and sharp black humor. The absolute best gimmick of the entire production, however, is Michael's computer-engineered butler named Igor! This guy is great!! He answers to every command with a monotonous "Yes, master" and he even constantly repeats the message: "Master is busy...Master is busy", when Michael to wishes to hold all calls. I have got to get me one of those! Anyway, back to the movie: The climax is an obvious giveaway and it only states what everybody already knows. Gamers generally are mentally weak people with difficulties to have mature friendships or relations, ha ha. "Brainscan" is a horror movie especially intended for the Playstation-generation, so you better dispose of a healthy dose of humor in case you're not in this target group. Oh, did I already mention it was rather dumb?? Special kudos goes out to actress Amy Hargreaves who supposedly portrays a 16-year-old high-school sweetheart, while in reality 24 years of age already.
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Squeezed between the Heroic "Greatest Generation," who conquered the Great Depression, won WWII, and produced seven American Presidents, and the Baby Boomers, who've churned out three U.S. Presidents so far, as well as a million celebrities too numerous to itemize here, was The Beatnik Generation (also known as the Beaten Down Folks) of this movie, BIG SUR. This group, born from 1928 through 1945, produced NO American Presidents (unless you count Puppetmaster Dick Cheney), and has managed little else but a bisexual circle of personalities largely unknown to normal Americans, but obsessed with having movies made about their alleged "heyday" (HOWL, ON THE ROAD, KILL YOUR DARLINGS, and BIG SUR are only four of the most recent). When the surviving "Beats" serve as "technical consultants," their booze and drug-addled brains apparently are not lucid enough to get the main characters--all of whom hung around together--into the same flick. In addition to "notables" featured in BIG SUR--Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Michael McClure--there was a handful of others, such as Allen Ginsberg, homophobic killer Lucian Carr, Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson (the latter of whom both George McGovern and Jimmy Carter credit for their Democratic presidential nominations in GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON). BIG SUR drops most of the pseudonyms utilized by Kerouac for these people in his actual books (as only university English majors hell-bent in staying out of the "real world" the rest of their lives have even heard of the fake names) in favor of their real names, except it calls Diane and Curtis Hansen "Billie and her son Elliott," in an attempt to further "smooth over" the bigamy of the circle's one Alpha Male, Neal Cassady. If I haven't said enough already for you to decide whether or not to see BIG SUR, let me conclude by saying there was ONE other person at my showing in the theater, and he WALKED OUT (never to come back) after 40 minutes of this mercifully brief 81-minute effort to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear of a generation (but the scenery is absolutely stunning!).
Somehow, Claudio Fragrasso and Alice Cooper made a movie together and no one talks about it. Well I am! How does this movie not get talked about more often? It's completely deranged! If you think that all Fragrasso did was Troll 2 (well, I can go way deeper than that, thanks to my devotion to his works like Night Killer and Shocking Dark), good news. He's ready to blow your mind all over again.Vince Raven (Alice!) starts the film in a music video for his song "Identity Crisis." Soon, he's taking his girlfriend Sandra and a film crew to his childhood home to shoot another video.Before they get there, the house's caretaker is preparing a party for Vince. He hears the howls of some wild dogs and is soon attacked by them. The next morning, our hero makes his way home when he's stopped at a barricade by two police officers. It turns out that there have been some attacks in town and they advise Vince to not even go home, but if he does, to lock the door and have weapons. As soon as the van drives away, a dog kills both of the cops. But not just any dog - a Monster Dog!The van then hits a car and instead of watching the dog suffer, Vince smashes its head with a rock. if that's not rough enough, a blood-covered man appears from the woods telling everyone that they'll die, except for Vince.Angela keeps having bad dreams, such as the bloody man from the woods killing everyone and Vince reading a book on werewolves which reveals that he is the Monster Dog. Later, she finds him in the same chair as her dream, reading the same book and he reveals that his father was a werewolf that was blamed for the deaths in town. He was then stabbed, covered with gasoline and burned alive. What a vacation!Soon, they are recording the video for "See Me in the Mirror" when the caretaker's body crashes through a window and lands on Angela, who runs in fear. Vince follows just as a carload of armed men arrives at the house and takes everyone hostage. Angela runs back into the house just in time to get shot by one of the men, then wild dogs invade and bite everyone and anyone they can.Two of the girls, Sandra and Marilou run upstairs, as the dogs give chase. Vince is somehow able to control the dogs, appearing in the midst of fog as if he were in a music video. Everyone is able to make it to the car, but Marilou is killed by the Monster Dog, which also attacks Vince.It turns out that the dog was the old man from the woods, who has now transformed Vince into the next generation of Monster Dog. Sandra finds him and he asks her to kill him before he transforms. So she does, then we see another music video for "Identity Crisis."This movie is inane, it makes no sense and it's gorgeous. I loved every single second of it, loudly applauding nearly every twist of its plot that made less and less sense the longer the story went on. I also love that everyone's lines are dubbed, including Alice Cooper's, who speaks English.Here's another reason to love Fragrasso. When the dogs chase the girls up the steps, that was supposed to be a single take, which was a hard shot to get. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that the dogs had been deprived of food so the actresses were worried that they'd be attacked, as they had their clothes packed with warm meat. And then, halfway through the shot, the still photographer ran out of film and yelled "Cut!" instead of Fragrasso, who went full crazy house, grabbed a shotgun and began firing it into the air as he chased the photographer around the set, dogs barking and snapped and running with him.So how did this all happen? Well, Alice Cooper had been an alcoholic for most of his adult life and then got into cocaine. His career and health paid the price, so he got sober in 1983 as his record label dropped him. Unsure of what to do next, he was offered this movie and decided to do it, but was promised that it would never come out in America. Oh Alice - don't trust an Italian filmmaker.Fragasso edited a cut that he liked in Spain, where this was shot, then headed home to Italy. That's when the producers took it to America and dropped twenty minutes of footage, changed the dialogue and added the music video at the end. Frgassso had no idea this was happening and was obviously crestfallen. Luckily, the Japanese version has his cuts and the recent Kino Lober release has all of the deleted and altered scenes.Alice said of the film, "I didn't want to do a heavy budget movie. I said if I do one of these I want to make sure it's sleazy. I want it to be really cheap. I said, "How many people do we get to kill in this?" They told me it would never get released in the movie houses, and I said, "Great. It should just be one of those movies you can rent at the video place.: And they said that's what it would be, so I did it ... I got a lot of money for it laughs. I think I was the biggest part of the budget." 2ff7e9595c
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