The Sadist | CLASSIC HORROR FILM | Thriller | Full Movie English
51The Sadist - Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.
The Sadist (1963)
Director: James Landis
Writers: James Landis
Stars: Arch Hall Jr., Helen Hovey, Richard Alden
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: United States
Language: English
Also Known As: Sweet Baby Charlie
Release Date: 25 April 1963 (USA)
Filming Location: Newhall, California, USA
Storyline:
Three teachers are on their way to a Dodgers game in Los Angeles but are forced to pull off to a gas station on the side of the road after their car gives them trouble. When they don't find the owner of the gas station, the three are startled by seeing a young man Charlie, holding a gun along with his girlfriend Judy. The couple have spent the past several days evading arrest and leaving a trail of corpses behind them. The couple terrorizes the teachers in broad daylight without any mercy.
Reviews:
"1963 drive-in B-movie The Sadist might look like an early sixties film, but it sure feels like it came from the seventies, with a shocking realism and gritty atmosphere akin to films like Last House On The Left and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Inspired by the exploits of real life thrill-killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the film stars Arch Hall Jr. as Charlie Tibbs, who, along with his teenage girlfriend Judy (Marilyn Manning), torments three teachers, Ed (Richard Alden), Doris (Helen Hovey) and Carl (Don Russell), who have the misfortune of bumping into the pair of psychos after experiencing car trouble on their way to a ball game.
What follows is a lean exercise in suspense, director James Landis expertly wringing every ounce of tension from the situation, especially when it becomes clear that Tibbs has no intention of letting his victims live. As Ed is forced to fix a car at gunpoint, he desperately tries to figure out a way to outwit Tibbs, but the killer isn't quite as stupid as he looks, anticipating every move. Landis handles the action, which unfolds in real time, with incredible skill, never letting the pace or tension drop, and commands superb performances from his cast, Hall Jr. being an utterly loathsome villain, and Hovey making for a very appealing heroine (what a shame that was her one and only movie).
Landis also delivers one or two genuine gut-punches—scenes that deliver the kind of shock that stays with the viewer long after the film has finished—and rounds things off with a brilliant game of cat and mouse, as Doris, making a desperate bid for freedom, hides in a rundown house while Tibbs, brandishing a knife, closes in on his prey. I won't tell you what happens,
that would spoil things; just watch this excellent film to find out for yourself."
- written by "BA_Harrison" on IMDb.com
Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) The Sadist
Austria Der Mittagsmörder
Brazil Tara Diabólica
Bulgaria (Bulgarian title) Садистът
Canada (English title) The Sadist
Canada (French title) (subtitle) Le Sadique
Finland (informal title) Sadisti
Finland (Swedish title) (informal title) Sadist
France Le sadique
Greece (DVD title) O sadistis
Hungary A szadista
Italy A bruciapelo!
Japan (Japanese title) サディスト
Soviet Union (Russian title) Садист
UK The Sadist
USA (reissue title) Sweet Baby Charlie
USA (TV title) Profile of Terror
USA The Sadist
West Germany Todesangst
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