Käsikirjoitus:
Stanford WhitmoreKuvaus:
John Arthur MorrillSävellys:
Roger KellawayNäyttelijät:
William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn, Warren J. Kemmerling, Jacquelyn Hyde, Biff Elliot, Casey Kasem, Vivian Blaine (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Every night "The Mangler" stalks the streets, killing and mutilating one random victim. Also on the murder trail is a TV reporter (Cathy Lee Crosby), and a police detective (Richard Jaeckel), but despite their efforts only a mysterious psychic DeRenzy (Jacquelyn Hyde) knows what the killer really is and how to stop it. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
Arvostelut (1)
Somewhere in the beginning, when Tobe Hooper was still signed up for the project, this movie was supposed to be a kind of zombie crime movie. After some days of filming, however, Hooper was fired by the producers (allegedly unable to fulfill his obligations in time), and John 'Bud' Cardos became the director, who completed the film. However, the test screenings then had a very poor response from audiences, and the producers decided to go back to the drawing board, and removed the zombie element, added an alien prologue and laser beams in the eyes of the killer. This created an utterly disgraceful movie lacking continuity or any sort of justification for what comes along in it, where nothing really seems to be happening, and everything makes zero sense in the end. The only quite interesting aspect of this movie is the strangely odd music that grabs hold of you.
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