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Blood Rage
Nightmare at Shadow Woods
USA 1987
produced by Marianne Kanter, William C. Brakefield (executive), Jared M. Drescher (executive), J.W. Stanley (executive), Stanley Westreich (executive) for Film Limited Partnership
directed by John Grissmer
starring Louise Lasser, Mark Soper, Julie Gordon, Jayne Bentzen, Marianne Kanter, James Farrell, Chad Montgomery, Lisa Randall, William Fuller, Douglas Weiser, Gerry Lou, Ed French, Dana Drescher, Bill Cakmis, Brad Leland, Rebecca Thorp, Ted Raimi, Dylan Riggs
Richard Lamden (= Bruce Rubin), music by Richard Einhorn, special makeup effects by Ed French
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Back in the day, identical twins Todd and Terry (both played by Mark
Soper) were involved in a bloody murder at a drive-in, but only Todd was
ever charged - so while he spent his days at a mental institution, Terry
became the model high school student, a regular stud and popular with both
his peers and the ladies alike, especially with Karen (Julie Gordon), who
stands by him even though she starts to feel there's something wrong with
him ... well, others think that too, like his doctor (Marianne Kanter) and
his mother (Louise Lasser), both coming more and more to the conclusion
that the killing back in the day might have been solely Terry's fault, and
Todd might have taken the blame for who knows what reason - and then, Todd
escapes the mental institution to return home to mum, of all days on
Thanksgiving when everyone's guards are down because of too much food and
booze and anticipation of holiday sex ... and suddenly, the neighbourhood
is victim of a murder spree, and Terry's the first in line to track down
the killer, Todd. But quite frankly, it might not be Todd who's doing the
killings but ... In style and story, Blood Rage was most
certainly not a film to re-invent genre cinema, but beyond all of its
sensationalistic coating it at least tried to tell a story with a bit of
originality, populated with at least a few characters one might care about
(in a positive as well as negative way), and it shows some invention in
choosing its resident killer. But that said, for all gorehounds out there,
this film delivers, not so much in the liters of blood spilt perhaps but
the originality of the bloodletting - some exquisitely deranged minds must
have been at work there. So in all, no, not a seminal genre movie, but
if you want to take a nice trip down memory lane, slasher style, you ought
to seriously consider this movie here!
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