Cubussoli
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Kailansorac
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Sam Panico
I'm constantly on the hunt for certain movies. Ever since I saw the trailer for this - the only film to ever be shot in Duo-Vision - I've been on the hunt. Finally, in an Exchange store on a Sunday afternoon, my patience was rewarded.The Grandview is one of those gorgeous California hotels that you dream of living the rest of your life in, Telly Savalas style. But there's one big problem - any blonde female who checks in never leaves. I'd make a Hotel California joke here, but that just seems too easy.Trivia note: This is really the Hotel del Coronado, where Some Like It Hot was shot.David Bailey, from TV's Another World, plays hotel detective Rick Stewart, who is busy with old women who don't pay their rent and overly amorous beachfront lotharios. Soon, he's on the trail of the killer, which gets more personal when his ex-wife Lisa James (Tiffany Bolling, The Candy Snatchers) shows up to sing at the Grandview and promptly dyes her brunette hair blonde. Whoops.
This song is the best part of the film. Becca and I have been singing it to one another ever since we watched this.Writer/director Richard L. Bare - who holds the record for directing the most successive number of television shows (168 episodes of Green Acres) - planned to follow up this film with another Duo-Vision movie called October Incident, which was about trying to kill Castro. The gimmick wasn't well received so the movie was canceled.I'd best compare Duo-Vision to the way that Ang Lee shot his version of The Hulk. The other screen often shows what's in someone's mind or reveals the truth of what they're talking about. The story probably wouldn't be anything I'd seek out if it wasn't for Duo-Vision, but I'm glad we have this in our collection. It's one of the rare movies we've seen that reveals the killer almost instantly yet remains interesting.More trivia: Aside from the songs that Bolling sings, the film's soundtrack is mostly made up of the piano score from 1925's silent Phantom of the Opera. And thanks to DVD Drive-In's George Reis, I now know that Charles B. Pierce of The Town That Dreaded Sundown fame was the set decorator!Thanks to the Warner Archive for restoring this oddball film. I wish I had seen it on the big screen and hope to get the chance one day!
longtallgibbs
This movie was funny as hell if you have the right sense of humor. Ahead of its time along with Private Parts which was playing with it in a double feature back in the early seventies. Worked at the theater it was playing in. Saw it at least 10 times in one week.Would love to see it again. Love the ending as the cop urges the killer to jump. Also the part where Jason whacks the Mother Superior from the Flying Nun. The organist was great also. I cannot exactly remember if she cracks her knuckles or burps when she pauses. Also love the flashback scenes of Jason being molested. A Classic for cult movie lovers. I think it should be remade with myself in the title role.
ptb-8
Gruesome serial killer schlock from the once mighty MGM before It remembered it had a treasure box of classics to cut up into docos, this is the sort of awful film major studios make today. Sort of SCREAM meets HOTEL (which indeed might be a good idea to a suit in Hollwood right about ...now).....using the dual image or cinemasope cut in half, it rendered the viewer dizzy by reel 2.. .......... ....when the girl in the bikini gets the bread knife in the guts over and over and over and over and over....just like they want you to enjoy today (WOLF CREEK). Maybe Tarantino could remake it on that possibility alone and we can laugh as illiterate critics label it 'cool' and dear Quentin can enjoy putting more imagery of mutilated females on the wide screen. Anyway.....it is all there in 1973 in gory banal grossness. Whoever said it should be DVD reissued with a co feature of NIGHT OF THE LEPUS is right. Stabbings and rabbits. Sounds very Multiplex 2006 to me.
Stephen-12
I can hardly begin to express what a disgusting, worthless piece of excrement this film is. When you consider how much talent there is in film-making, to know that a major studio (admittedly, on its last legs) funded this garbage makes you want to grab a sharp implement.Why is it so awful? All right (deep breath):1. The split screen. It's distracting. It adds nothing to the narrative. It isn't used to make a point (as Tarantino does in Jackie Brown). It's just there as a selling feature.2. The performances. God help us.3. The script. God continue to help us.4. The story itself. Who the hell thought this would be an original idea?5. The child abuse sequences. So appallingly exploitative, so unworthily sickening, so POINTLESS...I wanted to throw something at the TV.6. The tacky tone. The sexual puns are puerile beyond belief. The Farrelly brothers would never have stooped this low.7. The theme song. Still stuck in my head after about 10 years. GO AWAY!!!!There are plenty of other reasons why this obscenity should be thrown into the Pit of Hell, but I really can't bear to go any further. Every copy of this should be consigned to fire, and everybody involved in it should be taken outside and shot, their bodies burnt, their ashes buried and the whole site concreted over.If this diatribe persuades people to go and see it, it has failed in its mission. Don't ever employ its maker to do anything again, I implore you.The least enjoyable bad film ever made. Can I give it a minus score, please?
