IMDb plot summary: An elderly horror film star, while making a personal appearance at a drive-in theatre, confronts a psychotic Vietnam War veteran who has turned into a mass-murdering sniper.
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, and Monte Landis.
I like Peter Bogdanovich but had never seen this very early film of his, and it's kind of fascinating. It's got this slow burn that, for me, managed to really boost the tension. It brought to mind the cold everyday nature of the deaths in The Seventh Continent, though not quite as intense. The two separate pieces of the story are just as interesting independently as they are when they overlap at the end.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Targets > The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Targets < Brooklyn
Targets > State and Main
Targets > A Little Night Music
Targets < Peggy Sue Got Married
Targets < City of God
Targets < Murder by Death
Targets < Inherit the Wind
Targets < Tekkonkinkreet
Targets > Quartet
Targets < It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown
Final spot: #968 out of 3113.
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