I saw this originally as a kid shortly after it was released in 1966. It is a great little thriller that holds up well over the years. It is errie and suspensful, without blatant violence and gore. A neat film from long ago and far away.
shareThis movie will be on Chiller channel on Direct TV this Saterday Morning at 4:00AM. I plan on recording this gem.
shareJust saw this film and I loved it! I was almost not going to watch it because
dish network's guide gave it 1.5 stars and I usually they are on target, but
this movie didn't deserve that low of a grade. I found it entertaining and
I am a sucker for this genre of film making, along with the somewhat
serious camp of it all.
It was exciting to come across this gem!
I agree. This film is a great deal of good'n'ghoulish fun. Patrick O'Neal was splendidly wicked as the cunning and depraved killer Jason Cravatte. Cesare Donova and Wilfrid Hyde-White are likewise terrific as the highly engaging amatuer sleuthes on the case.
"We're all part Shatner/And part James Dean/Part Warren Oates/And Steven McQueen"
Too bad it never got to be a tv series (or at least a sequel). I'd like to know how the lady got in the Iron Maiden at the end!
"The truth 24 times a second."
Kind of a trip reading about this flick, 'cause for one, I haven't seen it since I was a kid many years ago, and I swear it also seemed back then that Channel 50 in Detroit would show it every couple of weeks,and always on a late Saturday night,when they showed a lot of old horror films on TV. I remember wondering how the heck the men could cut his hand off just to escape, the lovely women that were his soon-to-be victims that he approached, the freeze-frame and flashing on the guy's hook hand as he raised it to do someone in---wouldn't mind checking this out now, simply because I haven't seen it in so long--it's definitely rarely mentioned when it comes to old-school horror films.
Saw it online, and still liked it---it had some genuinely creepy scenes,such as when the killer hunts down his victims (O'Neal was great as the main psycho,just enough to make you wish he'd done more good horror films) and the two older gents tracking him down were cool as heck and fun to watch. It's ironic that it was considered too gruesome for TV when it came out, because you can see way more and gory and sick stuff on cable now---go figure---just goes to show how attitudes toward what can and can't be shown on TV have changed in the last 40-some years.