Review of Seabo

Seabo (1978)
1/10
Is "bad" too mild a word?
12 September 1999
This one had me looking through my thesaurus to find new words for bad. None were descriptive enough.

I caught "Seabo" a while back on one of my old satellite movie stations. You can tell it was a low-budget deal - it had Earl Owensby in it.

Don "Red" Barry and David Allen Coe were in it, too, though. They must have owed somebody. A lot.

The main things I remember in this movie (besides the plot which I'd rather forget) is Owensby talking through his teeth a lot, making some guy swallow all his bullets, later on spending time in a backwoods house of ill repute (innocently, of course), and Barry calling out "Seabo," and shooting at everybody and everything in sight near the end.

I think Coe sings a ballad about Seabo at the end, too. But, thank God, I don't remember all of it. All I do remember is it went on and on and on and on....

Well, gotta give them credit: if nothing else, "Seabo" can give fledgling film makers hope: if this can be made, there's hope for their crummy little projects, too.

Watch "Seabo"! Take heart!

Half a star. I wonder if Coe has his "Seabo" song on CD?
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