Release Date: 8/12/2003 Original Release: 1968 Format: DVD Widescreen Length: 89 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: For violent content UPC: 097360682441 Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Horror/Suspense, Psychos, Killer, Murder, Social Issues, Recommended, Theatrical Release, Guns, Violence, Actors, Essential Cinema, Horror Movies
Description
The message of Peter Bogdanovich's suspenseful directorial debut still rings true for post-1970s America, regardless of the decade. Tim O'Kelly plays Bobby Thompson, a seemingly mild-mannered husband and son. But Bobby has a penchant for collecting firearms and thinking murderous thoughts, which translate into action when he becomes a deadly sniper, picking off drivers on the L.A. freeway from high above an oil tank. Meanwhile, Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff), an aging horror film star, plans his retirement, feeling the atrocities wrought by daily human global existence have numbed the public to the movie monsters he plays. As fate and movies will have it, Thompson and Orlok's worlds collide at the Reseda Drive-In, where Orlok is making his final public appearance. Writer-director Bogdanovich, helming his debut feature, also appears as young Hollywood screenwriter and director Sammy Michaels. A powerful and chilling study of unexplained, unexpected violence, the film relays a message that continues to be contemporary to the American psycho-social landscape.
DVD Features
Region 1 Keep Case Letterbox - 1.85 Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - English Subtitles - English - Optional Additional Release Material: Introduction: by Peter Bogdanovich Audio Commentary: Peter Bogdanovich - Producer/Director
'Targets' is an underrated little gem from Peter Bogdanovich, whose best films are Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show. The movie was produced by Roger Corman, and is based on the senseless killing... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
