Continuing our break from Giant Monster Films and China, let's stick to the '70s.
Here's a Film with a good Director, three Stars...and a Plot that barely uses any of them.
It is...
He wakes up in a Hospital and they cut off one of his legs.
Enough of him now...until we randomly cut to him later to show him losing more limbs.
The Police investigate a Murder. The woman is found dead, but there's no blood!
Enough of him now...until we randomly cut to him later to show him losing more limbs.
Where's Count Yorga?
Is that Racial Profiling?
We sometimes cut to a fictitious European Country where the Police go after some people, attack another and then Peter Cushing arrives.
Is that Racial Profiling?
He tells the man behind the attack that he'll deal with him later...and he's promptly killed.
As the Police case goes on, we are shown that Christopher Lee is the Captain.
He doesn't do much...but he's here.
At least he's not dead yet.
The killer turns out to be this cross between Keith Moon and Mick Jagger.
He kills another girl and is caught in a Police Sting Operation.
He escapes...for the world's second longest Police Chase. He's no OJ.
He shows off some super strength and endurance, biting off his own hand to escape some cuffs. After another long chase (this one on foot), he ends up diving in a Vat of Acid...owned by Vincent Price (who's only shown up once- briefly)
It ended better for Rick & Morty.
How do these Plots- a Fascist Country, a Vampire killer, the amputations and the acid- connect?
Well, Scientists like Price are making robots (not the last time either) to replace us with our stupid, stupid minds (stupid!).
He...ends up fighting the Police's Doctor and then the bad Foreigner...before he meets Lee (for their only Scene) and dips himself in the acid too.
Oh and Lee is secretly an Alien- at least in the Book.
Did that info dump at the end seem like allot? Well, it was just like that in the Film.
This one is...hard to rank. On one hand, it has a complex narrative that eventually (mostly) comes together. On the other hand, it takes the whole Film to make sense...and it still barely does.
It is a Film that I probably won't forget for quite a while though.
It's a shame that the Film used a scandalous Title (it was originally called 'The Disjointed Man') and three Horror Icons in random, small Roles to draw in the Audience. It's still not a terrible Film. Just don't expect straight Horror- it is more a Conspiracy Film that would be all the rage in the coming years.
See it with an open mind, but be prepared for lots of long, drawn out shots. Just take them in...
A mis-marketed Film (by design) with is confusing as all get out. It's...something.
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