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Horror october #26
Oct. 26th, 2017 09:23 pmThe world belongs to the young. Make way for them. Let them have it. I am an anachronism.
Boy oh boy. I've been meaning to watch Targets for ages, but I guess it felt like a movie I was saving for some reason. And I'm so glad I finally watched it. One of Boris Karloff's very last movies, with him essentially playing himself as an old, frail horror movie legend who just wants to retire and die in peace, but is lured back for one final movie by a young director (played by first-time director Peter Bogdanovich himself) who promises him a proper role, at the same time as a mass shooter decides to do his thing for absolutely no reason whatsoever ...
A head-on collision between classic horror and New Hollywood darkness, where the old monster in a tux faces off against the all-American neighbourhood psycho killer, it might be more of a thriller movie than a horror one (though there are some truly chilling moments), but worth it for horror fans both for the finale, and to see Karloff get one last chance to prove what a brilliant actor he was when he got the chance, almost 40 years after Frankenstein turned him into both a household name and a bit of a joke. A lean, mean bull's eye of a film, however you watch it.
Boy oh boy. I've been meaning to watch Targets for ages, but I guess it felt like a movie I was saving for some reason. And I'm so glad I finally watched it. One of Boris Karloff's very last movies, with him essentially playing himself as an old, frail horror movie legend who just wants to retire and die in peace, but is lured back for one final movie by a young director (played by first-time director Peter Bogdanovich himself) who promises him a proper role, at the same time as a mass shooter decides to do his thing for absolutely no reason whatsoever ...
A head-on collision between classic horror and New Hollywood darkness, where the old monster in a tux faces off against the all-American neighbourhood psycho killer, it might be more of a thriller movie than a horror one (though there are some truly chilling moments), but worth it for horror fans both for the finale, and to see Karloff get one last chance to prove what a brilliant actor he was when he got the chance, almost 40 years after Frankenstein turned him into both a household name and a bit of a joke. A lean, mean bull's eye of a film, however you watch it.
