Remake (again)

 

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VICKI-1953-Against the wishes of his boss (uncredited John Denher), burned out obsessed police Lt. Cornell (Richard Boone) takes on the murder case of famous model Vicki Lin (Jean Peters). Suspects include PR man Steve Christopher (Elliot Reid) who made Vicki famous, colum-nist Larry Evans (Casey Adams, who wrote the theme song), actor Robin Ray (Alex D'Arcy) and switchboard operator Harry (Aaron Spelling). The story is mostly told in flashbacks by the suspects and Vicki's sister Jill (Jeanne Crain) who was suspicious of the whole thing. Though there are a lot of suspects it seems obvious who's the guilty party but there's a twist. 

Cops include Carl Betz, Russ Conway, Paul Gerstle and Parley Baer. Bits by Billy Nelson, Richard Garland and Burt Mustin as a bell boy! (He was still old!). This film noir remake of I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941) was directed by Harry Horner (RED PLANET MARS (1952), BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952)). A few years later, Richard Boone would star in the TV western HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL, which John Denher had starred in on radio. It's also been noted that the blacklisted writer Leo Townsend worked on the screenplay with no credit. He later wrote BEACH BLANKET BINGO (1963) and FIREBALL 500 (1965).

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SLAUGHTER-2008-Terrible shot on video nonsense about a pasty face guy named Harold (he looks like a cross between Teddy Roosevelt and the native assassin/servant in THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE) who hires internet models, kills them and then posts the gory photos on his snuff website. Meanwhile a female PI uses a victim's computer to track him down. There's death by baseball bat, electrocution, razor and gun with a lot of nude bloody bodies. One woman blinks after being shot to death. Harold calls his website “The Slaughtered Sheep” but the PI refers to it several times as “The Slaughtered Lamb”. Later the ghosts of his victims rise out of his computer and kill him. Bad acting, direction and SFX. 

The director Anthony Doublin made a few other video horror films but was mostly a lighting technician on low budget horror movies and the TV series “Robot Chicken”. 

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