As Clayton, a former sheriff, Van Cleef traverses the desert by stagecoach, looking to score a $3,000 bounty for bringing in the bandit Wermeer (Peter O’Brien, né Alberto Dentice, who never acted before or since). Wermeer is wanted for murder by the three Saxon brothers who seek revenge for them killing their dad (Horst Frank, […]
Duel
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The Clinic
No sooner do we meet them then a car barrels up on them menacingly — something we’ve seen in dozens of films, from the classic “Duel” to the crap-tastic “Jeepers Creepers.” They stop for the night at a creepy motel — shades of “Vacancy” — and in the morning, one of the spouses has gone missing […]
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Evil Things
Unlike the knock-offs that followed in “Blair Witch”‘s wake a decade ago (“The St. Francisville Experiment,” anyone?), the new crop realizes there’s more to the subgenre than merely tweaking the title. (Well, everyone but The Asylum and their “Paranormal Entity.”) In first-time writer/director Dominic Perez’s “Evil Things,” five college students (whose actors are largely as […]