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REVIEW OF DELIRIUM (1979)

From horrornews.net

SYNOPSIS:

A deranged killer (that looks like a cracked out Seth Macfarlane) is stalking the streets of St. Louis, taking out a number of unfortunate women that he happens to come into contact with. When the cops spring into action to stop him they discover that he is just part of something a lot darker and even though they may be able to put an end to his rampage that doesn’t mean that the bloodshed is over.

REVIEW:

Delirium is an odd little movie and I’m not sure how I felt about it. On the one hand it has its moments and is genuinely interesting but at the same time it feels a little disjointed at the same time. It is almost like there are two different movies going on here at the same time and it is obvious that it was written by a couple of different people (who may or may not have spoken to each other while they were working on the screenplay). I’m not saying that this makes it a bad movie but it is almost like one movie ends at the halfway point and then another one begins until the end credits start to roll.

As a result it’s sort of difficult to classify what category to put the film in as it is your standard slasher flick for the first half only to turn into a crime drama/evil conspiracy flick for the second half. I enjoyed it for the most part but think that maybe the two different ideas behind the movie could have come together a little better because the execution was a little off and the change in tone toward the middle doesn’t quite work as well as it should have.

I actually liked the plot (or should I say plots?) and thought that it (they?) worked for the most part. We have this kooky guy named Charlie that is going around and killing women because of something that happened to him when he was trying to be intimate with a woman in the past that has left him traumatized. It doesn’t help that he was also in Vietnam and is tormented by the horrible memories of all the terrible things that he experienced during his time there and as such has pretty much gone off the deep end.

We follow him around for over half the movie as he kills woman after woman and then things shift gears and we find out that he is part of this shady group (made up of other Vietnam vets) brought together for a specific purpose by some creepy guys that think that they know what is best for the country. I don’t want to spoil anything by telling you what the purpose of the group is but what they do is very similar to what a certain unstable blood splatter analyst that appeared on a very popular TV show on Showtime did for several seasons a few years back.

Unfortunately though Charlie was a little too nuts even for this group and instead of doing his job correctly he decided that he should just kill whoever he wanted whenever he wanted.  I’ll admit that it’s a pretty interesting concept and somewhat original, but when the two plots intersect that’s when things start to go downhill and the second half of the movie-though ambitious-isn’t quite as interesting and the first and I sort of lost interest a bit. What starts out as a somewhat  interesting slasher flick turns into your typical episode of Simon & Simon(wow, what an obscure reference, huh?) or some other crime drama television show from back in the day and doesn’t have nearly the same punch.

I think that the biggest mistake that the film makes is killing off Charlie at the halfway point and then focusing on the cops trying to figure out who is behind the group that he was a part of and what their intentions are. Poor old Charlie gets offed by one of his would-be victims in a pretty easy fashion without much of a fight and it just comes out of nowhere. I was more than a little surprised when I realized that there was still a half hour or so left in the movie after he dies and was even more surprised by the direction that the film takes after his demise.

I kept expecting him to somehow rise from the dead and make another appearance before everything was said and done but it just didn’t happen and instead he is almost totally forgotten about for the remainder of the movie as the main characters focus on going up against the mysterious group that he was a part of. The ending is pretty cookie cutter and uninspired and you can probably pretty much figure out what happens when our heroes finally discover the truth behind the group and take them on at their secret headquarters.

I also didn’t particularly care for how women were portrayed in the film either. Most of them are either totally stupid, complete whores, or a combination of both (the hitchhiker chick Charlie picks up at one point  is probably the worst of them). If I didn’t know any better I would say that the two guys that wrote the movie had a problem with women and looked down on them in general for some unknown reason. I know that most female victims that appear in slasher flicks for the primary purpose of just being fodder for the killer are typically not the smartest people in the world but the ones in Delirium are just insultingly bad. If you enjoy horror films that feature intelligent, resourceful women that are self-reliant enough to get their way out of a jam then this film is definitely not for you.

Did I like Delirium? I did but I didn’t. I think that the people behind it started the project with good intentions and some interesting and creative ideas but somewhere along the process of putting the film together things sort of fell apart and while the end result isn’t horrible it could have been a lot better. Surprisingly enough it was one of the movies on the infamous Video Nasties list for some reason despite the fact that it really isn’t that gory and doesn’t have a great deal of nudity in it for the most part. I guess in the end I can say that it is just an okay movie but definitely nothing special that really stays with you after everything is said and done. Check it out if you are curious, but keep in mind that you will most likely get bored with it once the second half gets going like I did.

REVIEW OF DRIVING FORCE (1989)

From philelmore.us

Driving Force is one of those movies that reaffirms your faith in the B-grade movie.  It’s a thoroughly mediocre film staffed by thoroughly mediocre actors who are nonetheless noteworthy.  When they’re all in the same place at the same time, their noteworthy mediocrity reaches a kind of lousy movie critical mass, creating a chain reaction that results in a film you might actually watch all the way through… even though you have no reason to do so and you won’t be sure why you did once you have.

It is the future, sort of, and things are really bad out there, kind of.  The future is made up of slums and chicken wire and sheet metal, except where it’s not, and the roads are all kind of Mad Max-like and dangerous, except they aren’t really.  And the roads turn from roads to dirt to gravel pits to other various deserted locations seemingly at random, because, well, that’s just what roads do.  Don’t they?

Sam was also in an action series called The Highwayman very briefly, back in the 1980s, and his sidekick was the guy from the Energizer commercials of the day, who used to run around knocking things over and shouting, “Oi! Oi! Oi!” for no reason.  That fellow’s name was Mark “Jacko” Jackson, but his name on the show was not “Jacko.”  It was, inexplicably, “Jetto.”  But I digress.

Steve is a single parent, trying hard to take care of his daughter, whose name I forget and whose presence in the movie is fairly unimportant save as a plot device.  In this dystopian future, the only job Steve can get is as Post-Apocalyptic Tow-Truck Driver (PATTD).  It is the task of PATTDs to take chicken-wire-covered tow trucks out onto the open roads to recover wrecks, which somehow generates money for all involved, though we’re not really sure why. 

Steve gets his job from a nice old lady whose voice is the worst bit of dubbing I’ve seen this side of a Godzilla movie.  Unfotunately for him, he almost immediately runs afoul of Don Swayze.

Don Swayze plays “Nelson.”  Nelson is a competing Post Apocalyptic Tow-Truck Driver.  He runs with several other Post-Apocalyptic henchmen, one of whom is played, badly, by martial-artist-turned-cardio-kickboxing-exercise-video-guru Billy Blanks.  (Tae Bo, people.  Tae Bo.)

The gang of thugs does what gangs of thugs do — they rough people up, help Don Swayze do bad things to Steve, and generally stink up the place.  One of the henchman is this strange, face-painting oddball who reminded me of Bubba Zanetti in Mad Max.  I’m quite sure the similarity was intentional, too.  What is it about these gangs of post-apocalyptic goons that they always have that one really sexually ambiguous guy?  Is it an attempt to be politically correct?  Is this our horrific, dystopian near-future — a world in which even biker gangs and scavenger thugs have to meet affirmative action quotas for ambiguously gay henchmen?

Don Swayze also happens to be Patrick Swayze’s brother.  He sounds like him, and even looks like him if you squint hard.  See, Don Swayze is what you’d get if you cooked Patrick Swayze for a few hours — sort of boiled him down to reduce his liquid content, then laundered him and forgot to fold him in a timely fashion so that he got wrinkly while crumpled up in the laundry basket on top of the machine. 

“Nelson” has a bad attitude throughout the film, and for good reason.  He’s dying of cancer, and his gang of thugs don’t really respect him any more, and one gathers the life of a tow-truck driver is not exactly how he pictured spending his twilight years after some vague worldwide disaster reduced the planet to a B-grade movie set.  He’s probably still pissed at whichever guidance counselor told him to channel his love of automobiles and his desire to work outside into a life of towing wrecks from the open cab of a sheet-metal-armored pick-up truck.

Anyway, Nelson and his ne’er-do-wells cause Steve to lose his job, and Steve’s evil in-laws try to take custody of his daughter.  Then the daughter runs away and goes back to be with Steve, and the evil grandparents just give up and decide to be reasonable.  Oh, and there’s a love interest for Steve, badly acted by none other than Catherine “I was Daisy Duke” Bach, to whom the years were not being kind even in 1989 when Driving Force was made.

Somewhere in there, Steve starts his own tow truck business, or something, and builds a truck and actually develops half a brain, and he defeats the evil tow truckers, and Nelson gets bored with being in the movie and sets himself on fire rather than spend any more time with Sam Jones.  It’s hard to blame him.  As the film closes, Sam Jones is coming to terms with the fact that Catherine Back wants to be his girlfriend and, while that’s not particularly appealing to him, he hasn’t got anything better going on.  Exuent.

REVIEW OF Action Jackson (1988)

From philelmore.us

”NAME: Jericho Jackson, NICKNAME: Action, HOME: Detroit, PROFESSION: Cop, EDUCATION: Harvard Law, HOBBY: Fighting Crime, WEAPON: You’re lookin’ at ‘em”

This week I’m returning to the world of the 80’s action flicks and you can’t go wrong with one with the actual word “action” in the title, can you? Well, you can… but not with this one, though. The movie’s main character, Jericho Jackson, is played by Carl Weathers, an actor who’s no stranger to action movie lovers. You’ll know him from the four first Rocky movies, for instance, but also from Predator, Force 10 from Navarone or the comedy Happy Gilmore. He’s an imposing figure, but always with a little mischievous glint in the corner of his eyes. I’ve always liked him as an actor, so Action Jackson is a favorite of mine.

Unfortunately, when it was released here in Sweden it ran into a force that not even Jericho Jackson could overcome… yes, ladies and gentlemen, I’m talking about the sharp scissors of the Swedish censorship. When they were done with it, the movie was roughly four and a half minutes shorter! They, as usual, didn’t like big guys beating the snot out of each other, and since some of the guys used martial art, which was a big no-no at the time, that was promptly cut… along with the stuff involving knives and fire! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the Swedish censors were ruthless back then. Most often even more ruthless than the movies they cut to pieces!

Action Jackson is a police officer in Detroit who’s been demoted to desk duty, due to him being a “little bit” rough on a suspect in an earlier case. Or as his boss, played by Bill Duke (Predator, Commando) says: “You nearly tore that boy’s arm off!” To which Jackson answers: “So..? He had a spare!” Macho-talk, you say? Hell yeah! And you better get used to it, because there’s a lot of it in this movie.

The arm in question belongs to the son of a wealthy and powerful business man named Peter Dellaplane who is the bad guy of the movie. He’s played by Craig T. Nelson from the TV show Coach and the movie Poltergeist for instance. Since Jackson threw Dellaplane’s son in jail, he’s not overtly fond of the police officer and is actually the reason that Jackson got demoted. And because of that… well, let’s just say that Dellaplane’s not on Jackson’s Christmas list either.

Jackson is investigating a series of murders on union members that all seem to lead back to Dellaplane’s company. In the eyes of the public, Dellaplane is a pillar to society and has been chosen “Man of the Year”, so Jackson is up against some pretty tall odds. Every lead either disappears or turns up dead, including Jackson’s informant and friend, Tony Moretti, played by the awesome Robert Davi. I’m sure you’ll recognize him from The Goonies, Raw Deal, Licence to Kill or Die Hard.

Dellaplane’s as dirty as they come though and is ruthlessly killing off anyone who stands in his way to the top. He even gets rid of his own wife and frames Jackson for her murder. She’s portrayed by Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) and even though she knows her husband is a tough businessman, she never suspects him of murder. And when she discovers the truth, she just becomes another obstacle for him to eliminate. Yeah, a regular Mr. Nice Guy, huh?

When Jackson finally gets a break, it’s in the form of Dellaplane’s mistress, a singer and heroin addict named Sydney Ash. She reluctantly agrees to help him after an attempt on her life. Sydney is played by Vanity (The Last Dragon, 52 Pick-Up) and as I’ve stated before in my review on The Last Dragon, she’s not the world’s best actress. In fact, she’s pretty crappy in Action Jackson, but she looks damn good though. She actually sings two songs in the movie… unfortunately they’re crap too.

The story is pretty straight forward, the action is plentiful and the comedy is well placed and I like this movie a lot. It’s not a candidate for any academy awards, but hey… if that’s what you’re looking for you’re definitely in the wrong place. What I also find interesting is the amount of recognizable faces in Action Jackson. Not just for the main characters, but for the supporting cast as well. At least if you’ve seen as many of these 80’s action flicks as I have.

Now bear with me please, as I go through some of the names… First of all we have the cool-looking Asian guy, who’s in every damn action movie… His name is Al Leong and you’ve seen him in Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and Big Trouble in Little China to name just a handful.

As Dellaplane’s chauffeur, Cartier, we see Nicholas Worth from Darkman and Swamp Thing.

In two small parts as punching-bags, so to speak, you’ll probably recognize two Native American actors, Sonny Landham (Predator, 48HRS) and Branscombe Richmond from the TV-show Renegade.

The first two victims of the movie are played by Ed O’Ross (Red Heat, The Hidden) and Mary Ellen Trainor (The Goonies, The Monster Squad). As the former boxer Kid Sable, we see Chino “Fats” Williams and as some of Dellaplane’s thugs there are Bob Minor and Dennis Hayden. See what I mean?

The director of Action Jackson is one who’s given us Dark Angel and Stone Cold as well as the TV mini-series The Triangle and Storm of the Century. He also directed a couple of episodes of the classic TV-show The A-Team. His name is Craig R. Baxley.

I briefly mentioned the comedy in the movie and some of it centers round a petty thief and pickpocket named Albert. When we first see him he’s attempting to steal the purse of a heavyset woman, but she actually beats the crap out of him, all while two passing cops watches the scene and laughingly decides to pick him up. In the car they tell him about Action Jackson and how some say he’s the result of a genetic experiment gone wrong or that his mother was raped by Bigfoot and Jackson was the offspring. They basically scare the wit out of him! So much so, that when he first encounters Jackson and spill coffee all over his desk and paperwork, he actually faints from fear. This turns into a running gag of sorts, because Albert pops up from time to time all through the movie.

So, my friends, it’s time to end this week’s review and I’ll do so by saying if you haven’t seen this flick, I highly recommend that you do. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed! As always, please tell me your thoughts in the comment section!

Until next time…

APRIL 10 VHS MOVIE REVIEW : DELIRIUM (1972)
From horrorexpress.com

Not to be confused with the 1987 Lamberto Bava film of the same name (aka 'Photos of Gioia'), this is Renato Polselli's 1972 sleazy giallo classic, originally released as 'Hot Delirium' ('Delirio Caldo') in his native Italy. 1972 was a vintage year for gialli, but Polselli's film almost certainly has the dubious distinction of being the most over-the-top giallo of the early 70's, even out-doing Umberto Lenzi's work in the genre in terms of ludicrous plot and crazed atmosphere. Polselli (working here under his regular pseudonym of 'Ralph Brown') is not a well known director, and THE REINCARNATION OF ISABEL is his best known film besides DELIRIUM. He was responsible for some hardcore sex films, including the much-discussed but little-seen 1973 film 'Rivelazioni di uno Psichiatra Sul Mondo Perverso del Sesso' ('Revelations of a Psychiatrist on the Perverse World of Sex' - the film was announced for DVD release by Salvation/Image, but sadly never released).

Herbert Lyutak (Mickey Hargitay, former husband of Jayne Mansfield and best known to horror fans for his role in THE BLOODY PIT OF HORROR/THE CRIMSON EXECUTIONER (1965)) is a psychologist who works alongside the police in a psychological profiling capacity. He's also a demented, psychosexual, impotent murderer. At the beginning of the film, he's sat in a bar having a drink when a young lady's bare legs catch his attention. He overhears her talking on the phone, and offers her a lift to the night club she mentioned. In the car, he begins to act strangely, staring at her legs and eventually touching them. Not surprisingly, the girl becomes worried and wants to get out. Lyutak stops the car and she flees, only to be caught up by Lyutak when she stumbles in a river. He rips her clothes off whilst strangling her, then bashes her with a handy rock. Back at Lyutak's home, we meet his young wife Marcia (Rita Calderoni, Polselli regular, best known for her roles in THE REINCARNATION OF ISABEL and NUDE FOR SATAN), and their woman servant Bonita (Carmen Young). Marcia suspects her husband was responsible for the murder, which we discover was one of a series involving young women. The police confirm her suspicions when they arrive to question Lyutak, having been tipped off by the bar owner. However, whilst this is going on another murder is committed and Lyutak identifies a small-time crook as the killer from a line-up of people found in the area at the time of the murder. Lyutak sets a trap with the police, as he believes he can predict the time and place of the next murder. A policewoman is to be the bait, but a prostitute in the area is killed instead, and the murderer gets away. As things escalate, Marcia starts having visions involving lesbian orgies, chains and Lyutak laughing dementedly. Can the police unravel the mystery of the murders before more victims are found? Will Lyutak be unmasked? Who is the other killer? You'll just have to watch it to find out!

As should be clear from the above synopsis, this is a particularly convoluted giallo. As a matter of fact, even when the murders are explained at the end of the film, it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. What sets this film apart from the plethora of gialli released in Italy in the early 70's is its sheer craziness. The acting is terrible, though Hargitay and Calderoni's wild-eyed performances are strangely suitable to the general ambience of the film ("You are a hyena! A hyena!" Hargitay screams at himself in the mirror in one particularly deranged scene). There is a fantastic electro-synth score (by the aptly named Gianfranco Reverberi, whoever he might be), which is used to great effect, especially during the weird hallucination sequences. There's plentiful nudity, which is always welcome when it involves Ms Calderoni. There's implied sodomy with a blunt instrument! There's a jaw-dropping scene in which the black-gloved killer masturbates a woman whilst strangling her! There's inept gore and violence (check out the weird whip-type-thing at the end of the film - it looks like it's made of wool)! There's a comedy red herring character who is only ever referred to as 'the parking lot attendant'. And so on - what more could anyone ask for from a giallo?!

I first saw the film on a bootleg of the Dutch VHS release, which features a radically different version of the film to that originally intended by Polselli. Polselli shot a new beginning for the American release of the film, which shows us Lyutak fighting in Vietnam. He's injured and air-lifted in a helicopter, on board which is a female GI who looks strangely familiar... Other Vietnam flashbacks were inserted in places during the film, and a tacky alternative ending was also filmed. In addition to this, there are two extra murders, which alter the character of Lyutak quite considerably, making him an even less sympathetic character, if that's possible. The Anchor Bay DVD release of DELIRIUM features both of these versions, though the opening Vietnam footage on the American version is taken from the Dutch VHS release and is very ropey indeed. The American version is certainly inferior in my eyes, and there is a large difference in run time (US version - 85 min, international version - 102 min), indicating the quantity of footage excerpted from the original version. On top of all that, the French release of the film features additional sexual imagery not present here.

I didn't actually enjoy the film as much as I thought I would, watching it again after several years. It's really rather silly in places, with a complete lack of tension thanks to the atrocious acting of the murder victims. Undoubtedly it has redeeming characteristics, the most obvious being the genuinely weird hallucination sequences, which recall those filmed by Fulci the previous year for his masterpiece A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN in that both feature psychedelic scenes of lesbianism involving the unhinged heroine, though Fulci's were much more stylishly done. It's also worth noting that Joe D'Amato's infamous 1979 film BUIO OMEGA (aka BEYOND THE DARKNESS/BLUE HOLOCAUST) borrows a fair few plot elements from Polselli's film.

The DVD is the ideal way to experience the film, and there's a fascinating featurette in which Polselli and Hargitay (both of whom seem surprisingly normal) discuss the film's production. Note that the inernational version is presented in Italian language, with optional English subtitles.

APRIL 10 VHS MOVIE REVIEW : FLESH FEAST (1969)

Deadly slow mixture of espionage and horror genres that's more important for it's pedigree than for the actual film itself. First off, it stars 40's blonde bombshell Veronica Lake (who is also a producer) who, unfortunately looks like a bombed blonde shell of her former self. It was directed, co-produced and co-written by Brad F. Grinter, who made the classic badfilm BLOOD FREAK three years later. It was co-written by Thomas B. Casey, who would direct SOMETIMES AUNT MARTHA DOES STRANGE THINGS in 1971. Harry Kerwin, who directed GOD'S BLOODY ACRE (1975), has a small part and is production manager here. Chris Martell, who starred in SCREAM BABY, SCREAM (1969), also stars and is assistant director on this. As you can see, it's a veritable who's-who of early 70's Florida regional filmmaking. It's just too bad that FLESH FEAST is such a total bore. Lake stars as Dr. Elaine Frederick, who has perfected a rejuvenation procedure that involves specially-bred maggots that eat the flesh of dead people and, when applied to live people, give that person new youth and vigor. When some shady South American dudes in dark suits and black sunglasses hire Dr. Frederick to rejuvenate their boss, "The Commander", she prepares her lab for his arrival (her female assistant steals a female corpse from the hospital so the maggots can feed, as we see another assistant cut off the corpse's leg with a bone saw). A subplot involves a female student falling in love with Jose (Bill Rogers), one of the South Americans who have taken over Frederick's house. When Dr. Frederick performs a practice experiment on Max Bauer (Martell), an old man with a scarred face (to satisfy the S.A. dudes that her experiment is on the up-and-up), he becomes a young, spry man who proceeds to rape Jose's new girlfriend and then kills her. Jose kills him and puts his dead girlfriend in Dr. Frederick's lab. Satisfied with the outcome, the South Americans bring The Commander to Frederick's house. The Commander turns out to be Adolph Hitler (!) and Dr. Frederick has revenge on her mind, since her mother died in one of Hitler's concentration camps. The film ends abruptly with Dr. Frederick using her maggots on Hitler in a whole new way, while she cackles "Heil Hitler!" in front of a portrait of her dead mother.  Even at 72 minutes, the film seems hopelessly padded as the Jose subplot and another involving a newspaper reporter/C.I.A. agent Dan Carter (Kerwin) go nowhere and neither one is resolved. The entire film looks to have been shot silent and the post-synch dubbing, though done by the actors, barely match the lip movements. The film is also hopelessly dated, as every male character wears a dark suit with a skinny tie and most of the women sport beehive hairdos, except for Lake, who still wears her hair as she did when she was a femme fatale in films such as THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942). This was also Lake's last film, but try not to remember her this way. Doug Hobart (DEATH CURSE OF TARTU - 1966) provided the not-so-special effects, which include the aforementioned leg amputation, some old age makeup (which looks like oatmeal paste) and various body parts hanging in Dr. Frederick's lab. FLESH FEAST is worth a viewing if you are interested in Florida regional exploitation films (I think the only regional talent not involved in this were William Grefe and Wayne Crawford!), but have a stimulant handy because you'll need it. The Beverly Wilkshire DVD (which is OOP but still available on some online outlets) is pretty poor and looks like a second or third generation VHS dupe. It also has a glitch around the 11 minute mark that brings you back to the main menu. Just go to the second chapter and rewind to just after the glitch and the rest of the film plays fine. Also starring Phil Philbin, Martha Mischon, Doug Foster, Brad Townes and Otto Schlesinger. A Beverly Wilkshire DVD Release. Also available on VHS from World Video. Rated R. { text from critcononline.com }