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Summary: Wonderful
Review: "May I have a loan at the usual rate of interest?" So tragic. So fabulous.
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Summary: Horrible film, but Linda Kerridge "IS" Marilyn Monroe!
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This movie is atrocious! The plot is dreadful, the dialog is lame, the entire production is a bomb.
The only thing this movie has going for it is that Australian Marilyn Monroe look-alike Linda Kerridge appears in the film!
In case you weren't around when Linda Kerridge turned her 15-minutes of fame into a minorly sensational deja-vu in the early 1980's, you have to watch this movie to see what she was all about.
Photographed from the correct angles, and with perfectly-applied makeup and lighting, Linda appears as an exact double for Marilyn Monroe.
Look closely, and she's no more than a pale comparison to the original, but there are a few scenes that will make you shiver with an eerieness that can only come from having seen the dead come back to life.
For that reason alone, you should see this movie at least once!
Where is Linda Kerridge now? She was amazing in her few appearances in movies in the 80's, but whatever happened to her?
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Summary: An Near Perfect Bizarre Thriller.
Review: A Young Man in his Mid-Twenty by the name of Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher), which his First Love is Movies and he also Absorbing Them. When Eric falls in Love with a Marylin Monroe look-alike (Linda Kerridge). But Eric has Problems with People, who are Giving Him a Hard Time, soon, He goes over the Edge.Written and Directed by Vernon Zimmerman made a Suspenseful Thriller, which Movie Buffs and Horror Fans will love this. Because of the film`s Interesting Promise. It`s a Thriller with Some Horror Elements. Dennis Christopher gives a Tour de Force Performance in this flawed but Genuine Film. Mickey Rourke has a Small Role in this. Peter Horton has a very Small Part in this. This is a Excellent Film. Grade:B+.
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Summary: All the World's a Stage
Review: BREAKING AWAY's (1979) Dennis Christopher stars in FADE TO BLACK, a wry comment on how Hollywood is gaining influence over the worldview of the average citizen in contemporary Western society. Christopher plays Eric Binford, a young man so obsessed with the cinema that he soon begins to blur the line between reality and the plots of his favorite motion pictures. As his life begins to unravel, Eric looks to the movies for the solutions to his problems, and of course, it's only a matter of time before Eric starts eliminating those "problems" following the example of his favorite movie characters--with murder! Christopher's over-the-top performance is exuberant and flamboyant, but since his Eric Binford is a person whose behavior is governed by the cinema, such a performance makes the character seem both plausible and sympathetic. Another strong performance is offered by Linda Kerridge as Marilyn O'Connor, the object of Eric's unrequited love. (Of course, it helps that Kerridge, a former Australian model, is a very convincing Marilyn Monroe look-alike, a fact that is intricately weaved into the plotline.) Admittedly, the supporting cast is not nearly as strong as Christopher and Kerridge, and a great deal of the dialogue for minor characters is pure caricature. Indeed, if taken too seriously, FADE TO BLACK will come across as cartoonish and the plot will seem outlandish. But if viewed as the Juvenalian satire it is meant to be, the film definitely works. Cinema buffs will enjoy the clips from old classics, and horror fans will get a real kick out of watching Eric commit acts of mayhem and murder while costumed as Dracula and The Mummy. Viewers who do not appreciate dark satire--and especially those who do not enjoy thriller films--will probably regard FADE TO BLACK as made-for-TV fodder. True, it is not destined to be a classic. But it is definitely an entertaining film, and it's a genuinely fun ride for cinema buffs and devotees of the horror and thriller genres.
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Summary: All the World's a Stage
Review: BREAKING AWAY's (1979) Dennis Christopher stars in FADE TO BLACK, a wry comment on how Hollywood is gaining influence over the worldview of the average citizen in contemporary Western society. Christopher plays Eric Binford, a young man so obsessed with the cinema that he soon begins to blur the line between reality and the plots of his favorite motion pictures. As his life begins to unravel, Eric looks to the movies for the solutions to his problems, and of course, it's only a matter of time before Eric starts eliminating those "problems" following the example of his favorite movie characters--with murder! Christopher's over-the-top performance is exuberant and flamboyant, but since his Eric Binford is a person whose behavior is governed by the cinema, such a performance makes the character seem both plausible and sympathetic. Another strong performance is offered by Linda Kerridge as Marilyn O'Connor, the object of Eric's unrequited love. (Of course, it helps that Kerridge, a former Australian model, is a very convincing Marilyn Monroe look-alike, a fact that is intricately weaved into the plotline.) Admittedly, the supporting cast is not nearly as strong as Christopher and Kerridge, and a great deal of the dialogue for minor characters is pure caricature. Indeed, if taken too seriously, FADE TO BLACK will come across as cartoonish and the plot will seem outlandish. But if viewed as the Juvenalian satire it is meant to be, the film definitely works. Cinema buffs will enjoy the clips from old classics, and horror fans will get a real kick out of watching Eric commit acts of mayhem and murder while costumed as Dracula and The Mummy. Viewers who do not appreciate dark satire--and especially those who do not enjoy thriller films--will probably regard FADE TO BLACK as made-for-TV fodder. True, it is not destined to be a classic. But it is definitely an entertaining film, and it's a genuinely fun ride for cinema buffs and devotees of the horror and thriller genres.
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Summary: A movie maniac recreates his favourite screen slayings
Review: Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher) is an obsessed film buff who lives with his domineering Aunt Stella. A sad, strange young man, Eric hates the real world and has good reason to: he works as a delivery boy for a film supply company where his boss hates him and his colleagues think he's a wierdo. Even hookers hate him, and yes; not surprisingly he drives a moped. Yup, poor old Eric lives smack dab in the middle of Gimpsville and only exists for his love of movies. But one day he meets a gorgeous Aussie Marilyn Monroe lookalike (creatively named Marilyn) in a diner and he asks her out to a movie (of course). Unfortunately she quite innocently forgets their date so is two hours late... but Eric thinks she has stood him up. This drives Eric over the edge and he starts dressing up as various movie characters and killing off the people he feels have wronged him In his defense, the movie playing is Robbie Benson's DIE LAUGHING so you can't really blame the guy for snapping. (Why doesn't he just subject his victims to repeated screenings of it? That'd work).
Eric's delusional mania continues to worsen to the point where he thinks he's James Cagney in PUBLIC ENEMY, not to mention Christopher Lee's Dracula and William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy amongst other characters. Christopher's poor acting doesn't help the viewer gain sympathy for the character of Eric but it's still an interesting movie. What I like best is how the film makers are thumbing their noses at people who think movies influence people into committing crimes. If that were true most of the population of western world would be on death row!
But best of all are the film clips from PUBLIC ENEMY, HORROR OF DRACULA and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD among others. FADE TO BLACK isn't brilliant, but it's an entertaining movie for genre fans, with a few now familiar faces popping up. This is good viewing for your next Halloween party. Check it out.
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Summary: Where reality and fantasy come together...
Review: I bought this film without knowing anything about it, I got it for £2.99 and saw that it could be a good horror. 'Fade to black' is a sort of tragedy but not so much a horror, more a cult thriller? drama? anyway it's decent all the same. One for the film buffs!
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Summary: memories.......and it was just as good after all these years
Review: I had forgotten how good this movie was, what a classic. Its a treat to see it so clear and without commercials. Im easy to please when it comes to DVDs I admit, Im sure that it will be release a few times, cleaned up and remastered etc. But I recomend it to old timey horror fans and to old timey classic movie buffs alike. I just love Cagney.
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Summary: MST3K Material! Definitely!
Review: I plan to put this film on my worst films ever made list. I mean it was absolutely terrible. It [is bad]! It's only redeemable quality is that you could back and crack on how stupid this film is with friends while you are less than sober. There is a [pjysical gratification] scene that is perhaps novel for 1980, yet of course it's not worth getting this film over, I had more fun watching Hobgoblins that was made around the same time.
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Summary: Great movie for people that know they watch too many videos!
Review: Saw this movie a about 1986 and haven't forgotten it. Very cool and scary.
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