9/28/07: WALKING THE EDGE, WHITE GHOST
The trend of forgotten amazingness continues. Last night's fare exceeded even the wildest expectations ... Managed to cram in two features wholly unconnected to each other: Robert Forster in WALKING THE EDGE and William Katt in WHITE GHOST.
WALKING THE EDGE (Meisel, 1983)
EDGE is a brutal revenger about a trodden-upon cabbie/numbers runner who snaps from the pressure and goes on a murder spree after his best friend is killed to death by Joe Spinell and a power drill. It probably has a lot to do with Chinese hottie Nancy Kwan who is on the lam in his pad (after killing a few mobsters of her own) but won't put out. Best line in the movie: "They were Goddamn shooting at me ... with fuckin' bullets!"
WHITE GHOST (BJ Davis, 1988)
GHOST is an amazing collection of Vietnam war film cliches that defies description. Just take one part RAMBO, two parts UNCOMMON VALOR (so long as one of those parts is Reb Brown), a couple pinches of THE PUNISHER, and then blend it with PLATOON and you almost have a good idea what to expect. And that's not even touching the TARZAN elements of the story. Amazing stuff. William Katt has a mullet in this one.
Tonight's fare seems likely to hold the extended DEATH PROOF, GORDON'S WAR from 1972 starring Paul Winfield, and a Russian bootleg workprint of the new Cronenberg film (!!!). (Special thanks to YOU-KNOW-WHO.)
WALKING THE EDGE (Meisel, 1983)
EDGE is a brutal revenger about a trodden-upon cabbie/numbers runner who snaps from the pressure and goes on a murder spree after his best friend is killed to death by Joe Spinell and a power drill. It probably has a lot to do with Chinese hottie Nancy Kwan who is on the lam in his pad (after killing a few mobsters of her own) but won't put out. Best line in the movie: "They were Goddamn shooting at me ... with fuckin' bullets!"
WHITE GHOST (BJ Davis, 1988)
GHOST is an amazing collection of Vietnam war film cliches that defies description. Just take one part RAMBO, two parts UNCOMMON VALOR (so long as one of those parts is Reb Brown), a couple pinches of THE PUNISHER, and then blend it with PLATOON and you almost have a good idea what to expect. And that's not even touching the TARZAN elements of the story. Amazing stuff. William Katt has a mullet in this one.
Tonight's fare seems likely to hold the extended DEATH PROOF, GORDON'S WAR from 1972 starring Paul Winfield, and a Russian bootleg workprint of the new Cronenberg film (!!!). (Special thanks to YOU-KNOW-WHO.)
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