#a murder mystery (albeit with a couple of minutes of real nastiness‚ which is what landed it on the dpp list). the irony (which is not | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mariocki · 8 months ago

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I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (Drop Dead, Dearest, 1978)

"What is this? What is this? I'm not a suspect, am I?"

"I didn't say that."

"Goddammit, why aren't you doing something? Why aren't you out there looking for the person who did it? Look, look, look. I don't have to be treated in this...this, this manner! I'm not some motorcycle punk you've dragged in off the street! I'm a wealthy man!"

#i miss you hugs and kisses #drop dead dearest #video nasty #blood tw #gore tw #1978 #canadian cinema #murray markowitz #elke sommer #donald pilon #chuck shamata #george touliatos #cindy girling #george chuvalo #cec linder #richard m. davidson #migual fernandes #michelle fansett #corinna carlson #linda sorensen #highly atypical entry in the video nasty canon; it's formed more like a tv movie than a horror film‚ a courtroom drama crossed with #a murder mystery (albeit with a couple of minutes of real nastiness‚ which is what landed it on the dpp list). the irony (which is not #unique to this film) is that banning this film ended up giving it a legacy which has kept it alive much longer than it would have otherwise #who'd be seeking out a cheapo canadian killer thriller with a cast of minor b listers if it wasn't immortalised on a list of brain frying #gore flicks? well.. I might have? maybe. idk. but i mainly watched this bc of the video nasty thing and i gotta say it certainly isn't the #worst from the list I've seen. the format is interesting‚ opening on the central murder and then drifting back and forth between the events #leading up to it and the trial it resulted in. the plot is based on a true case (the Peter Demeter case; he's still in Canadian prison but #was presumably p happy with his nuanced portrayal here‚ if he ever saw the film). more melodrama than horror‚ except for those few scenes #of excessive sex and violence. remove those (and they'd be easily trimmed) and this is basically afternoon tv fodder

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