The Sadist

United States

1963

92 Min

Black and White

1.66:1

English

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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CAST Arch Hall Jr., Richard Alden, Marilyn Manning, Don Russell, Helen Hovey

MUSIC Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter

SOUND Alan O'Day, Sam Kopetzky

Synopsis

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. —IMDb

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Pierluigi Puccini

6Dec11

Arch Hall Jr. is brilliant as a campy, psychopathic baby huey.

Great late night 'B' gem with an excellent use of stark black and white photography. You almost feel the sweat off the screen from the heat and dust of it's parched locale. A truly sadistic villain in the rather odd career of Arch Hall Jr. Though the film is small and delegated to the second half of a thriller themed double bill it some how stays with you with it's blunt examination of social repression.

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Duncan Jones

17Apr11

"It was going so well until this clichéd endi-HOLY FUCK!" Something of an anti-Badlands, this single location, genre film telling of the Starkweather-Fugate story examines desperation and the limits of compassion in the least subtle and most impacting way it can. The tension, established by its sweaty, desolate environment is pushed into delirium by astonishing acts of violence, before a grim if exhilarating climax.