Muerte de la noche
Director:
Bob ClarkGuión:
Alan OrmsbyCámara:
Jack McGowanMúsica:
Carl ZittrerReparto:
John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe, Anya Ormsby, Jane Daly, Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby, Ruth Roman, John Bonney, Mal Jones (más)Sinopsis(1)
In this shattering variation on The Monkey's Paw, grief-stricken suburban parents (Academy Award nominees John Marley of The Godfather and Lynn Carlin of Faces) refuse to accept the news that their son Andy (Richard Backus) has been killed in Vietnam. But when Andy returns home soon after, something may be horribly wrong: Andy is alive and well or is he? Produced and directed by Bob Clark (Black Christmas) and written by Alan Ormsby (Deranged), Deathdream became one of the very first films to confront the domestic ravages of the Vietnam War. More than thirty years later, it remains one of the most chilling horror films of all time. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
(más)Reseñas (1)
Bob Clark and Alan Ormsby continue down the trail blazed by Romero. Following Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, an absurd satire of discredited hippie ideals, this time they use the living dead in a biting reflection of Vietnam syndrome and the issue of reassimilating returning soldiers into a society that doesn’t understand them. As in the case of other thorny issues, ignoble genre productions got out ahead of Hollywood, which turned its attention to veterans’ issues only several years later in more soothing and psychologically tinged melodramas like Heroes (1977) and Coming Home (1978). Though Dead of Night has a trash plot about a fallen soldier who returns home as a living corpse and must delay his physical decay by feeding on the blood of new victims, the film doesn’t slide into superficial exploitation. On the contrary, through its complexly developed, exaggerated premise, it succeeds in showing viewers what veterans went through when they returned home from the psychologically destructive hell of war to a country that had not been touched by war at all.
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