
Three teachers are on their way to a Dodgers game in Los Angeles but are forced to pull off to a gas station on the side of the road after their car gives them trouble. When they don't find the owner of the gas station, the three are startled by seeing a young man Charlie, holding a gun along with his girlfriend Judy. The couple have spent the past several days evading arrest and leaving a trail of corpses behind them. The couple terrorizes the teachers in broad daylight with... (Full plot summary below)
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Three teachers are on their way to a Dodgers game in Los Angeles but are forced to pull off to a gas station on the side of the road after their car gives them trouble. When they don't find the owner of the gas station, the three are startled by seeing a young man Charlie, holding a gun along with his girlfriend Judy. The couple have spent the past several days evading arrest and leaving a trail of corpses behind them. The couple terrorizes the teachers in broad daylight without any mercy.
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| Film ThreatFelix Vasquez Jr.This vehicle is a tense and rather creepy little thriller... |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsShane BurridgeThe key to its success is the decision ... to take time out from Junior's grooming as a movie matinee idol and cast him as a sniveling creep |
| User ReviewJeff OPure nihilistic fun. Arch Hall Jr. is the ugliest man I've ever seen; his face looks likes this piece of pizza I once found in the glove compartment of my dad's old station wagon--- only sweatier. Perfect casting. |
| User ReviewSCOTT FREE AKA MISTER MIRACLEFIRST MOVIE BASED ON CHARLES STARKWEATHER, ARCH HALL JR LOOKS LIKE CHARLES STARKWEATHER , HIS SLIMEY LAUGH IS WILD |
| User ReviewBill BThe most suspenseful movie Ive seen. Arch Hall does a oscar deserving job playing a despicable monster. If only there would have been a hero like Clint Eastwood in this. |
| User ReviewClare NA nihilistic, low-budget suspense masterpiece about a trio of school teachers who break down near a wrecked car lot in the Mojave desert, where they are terrorized by the eponymous sadist and his girlfriend. The story is loosely based on the Charles Starkweather killings -- which would later inspire Badlands (1973) -- and it?s unrelentingly bleak and surprisingly violent for a film of its vintage. James Landis? screenplay provides lots of unexpected twists and turns, while his direction keeps the action taut and claustrophobic; but it?s the two aces in his company who really knock this one out of the park. The first is cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. The Sadist was one of his first feature films and he conjures up so many extraordinarily bold shots that it?s no surprise that he would go on to become one of the top DPs in Hollywood. The second ace is Arch Hall Jr. as the sadist. He chews up the scenery, whining like a baby, moving and snarling like a gorilla, and looking like Elvis Presley?s inbred cousin. He takes the infantile, narcissistic rage of the fifties? rebel without a cause and carries it to its natural, regressive conclusion, creating one of the great screen villains in the process. |
| User ReviewMatthew RThis movie is a human volcano of unpredictable terror! |
| User ReviewHiro PArch hall Jr. was an inept lummox whose father paid his way into being a teen idol in the sixties with a series of teeny-bopper flicks like AAARRRGGG! and WILD GUITAR. fortunately James Landis felt he would be good as a twisted serial killer. Somehow his "acting" style works perfectly in this minimalist masterpiece of suspense. A single setting 5 character buried treasure that defies its $3.99 budget, with help from cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (his first american film) |
| User ReviewBjörn NIsn't fantastic when you find a treasure where you never would expect to find any? This is a masterpiece that grabs you from the first second to the last. More or less the film uses one stage, five actors and within this minimalism it creates just massive tension. There's no use for a remake - no use to. No one thought of re-filming Hitchcock's films either (except from those stupid follows of Psycho). |
| User ReviewAndrew Sa freaking shocking and great movie. thanks to tcm underground! it's the kind of shocker you would expect in the late 90's except it was done in the 60's! you will leave nail marks in your chair from the sheer tension you feel for these unlucky school teachers. and the lead is insane but a good actor who needs to be played wildly. |