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 Targets (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 1968 / Director: Peter Bogdanovich / Actors: Tim O'Kelly, ... more  Targets (DVD) ... Boris Karloff ... / DVD released 05 April, 2004 at Paramount Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PALNewest Review: ... way. His murders, although not particularly bloody by the standards of other films from the time (Bonnie and Clyde or The ... more ... Wild Bunch) are still pretty shocking, and we feel the human consequences of them.
Counterpointing him with the old horror actor, Orlock, may seem a bit fey, but it mostly works, and their plots cross over at the (ludicrous but cool) climax. Orlock's sections are as self-reflexive as hell, with the star's latest movie, The Terror, also being the real-life Boris Karloff's latest movie. The director of the film is played by Peter Bogdanovich, the, er, director of this film. Orlock sees himself as an anachronism - "...more |
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Targets (DVD): "Gonna shoot some pigs" (744 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 18.02.08 (Very useful, 84 readings)
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A review of the Paramount DVD. A nifty little film from 1968, Targets was Peter Bogdanovich's first film as a director. It was made to take advantage of the fact that Boris Karloff owed Roger Corman, the film's producer, a few days' work. An ageing horror icon, Byron Orlock, announces that he's retiring, feeling that his brand of gothic horror is outmoded. He agrees to make one last public appearance to promote his latest film, The Terrror. Meanwhile, a young man goes mad, shoots his family, and then goes on a sniper rampage. Bobby, the killer, is obviously based on Charles Whitman, the guy who shot people from a tower at the University ...
