Donald Cammell reportedly spent his childhood on the knee of Aleister Crowley, he went from a painter to a writer to a director. While a good chunk of his career was confounded by trying to make multiple movies with Marlon Brando, he did leave us with Demon Seed, Performance and this movie before killing himself with a shotgun.
Rich young women keep getting killed in Globe, Arizona and this movie in no way skimps from the horrific carnage that they are treated to. Even though this is from 1987, it's still shocking. The first kill has an incredible 55 cuts in two minutes and twenty seconds, making it seem even more violent than it is.
Detective Charles Mendoza to visit Paul White, a sound expert to the rich and famous that is able to make an echo that he hears inside the air cavities of his head - yes, Cammell definitely made this - and that's how he picks where the speakers go in each room.
Paul stole his wife Joan from an old friend Mike on a hunting trip in which he mutilated a deer and covered his face in its blood. Again, Cammell definitely made this movie. Oh yeah - and Mike is haunting the couple, ten years older and walking. The streets constantly eating peanut butter and claims he has the ability to see the past and future, which may come in handy because Paul has definitely been murdering women and hiding them in his bathroom, explaining to his wife when he's caught that the universe has picked him because its heart is female and destructive like a black hole and demands destruction. And also because...you know who made this movie.
Paul then decides to lock his wife in the basement, dress in Kabuki makeup with a vest covered with explosives and chases his wife, daughter and even Mike into a cave where he keeps making his echo sound to please himself and further explains how the universe wants him to kill women.
Yeah - you know that I totally loved this absolutely berserk movie.
For all Brando screwed with Cammell professionally, he did take the time to write a letter to the MPAA to ensure that this didn't get an X rating. So there's that, I guess.
Rich young women keep getting killed in Globe, Arizona and this movie in no way skimps from the horrific carnage that they are treated to. Even though this is from 1987, it's still shocking. The first kill has an incredible 55 cuts in two minutes and twenty seconds, making it seem even more violent than it is.
Detective Charles Mendoza to visit Paul White, a sound expert to the rich and famous that is able to make an echo that he hears inside the air cavities of his head - yes, Cammell definitely made this - and that's how he picks where the speakers go in each room.
Paul stole his wife Joan from an old friend Mike on a hunting trip in which he mutilated a deer and covered his face in its blood. Again, Cammell definitely made this movie. Oh yeah - and Mike is haunting the couple, ten years older and walking. The streets constantly eating peanut butter and claims he has the ability to see the past and future, which may come in handy because Paul has definitely been murdering women and hiding them in his bathroom, explaining to his wife when he's caught that the universe has picked him because its heart is female and destructive like a black hole and demands destruction. And also because...you know who made this movie.
Paul then decides to lock his wife in the basement, dress in Kabuki makeup with a vest covered with explosives and chases his wife, daughter and even Mike into a cave where he keeps making his echo sound to please himself and further explains how the universe wants him to kill women.
Yeah - you know that I totally loved this absolutely berserk movie.
For all Brando screwed with Cammell professionally, he did take the time to write a letter to the MPAA to ensure that this didn't get an X rating. So there's that, I guess.