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Shock Treatment (1981)
A Diamond in the Rough
OK folks...remember how "Rocky Horror" was to you when you first saw it? You didn't quite get it at first. And it took a couple of times for my 'friends' to get it as well. Same goes with "Shock Treatment". No it doesn't have Frank N' Furter in it. And granted Brad and Janet are different actors, but they were played well by Jessica Harper and Cliff De Young. Yet the songs still have the Richard O'Brian touch and flair. They are melodic and catchy as "Rocky Horror's" score was. One just needs time to catch on. It took me awhile and I too was a 'nay sayer' about this movie when it first came out. But the difference was I gave it a chance. I rented the movie, then, by hap chance, I found the soundtrack on record (It is now available on CD, on Half.Com). If I were to do it over again, I'd buy the soundtrack first, then retry the movie. I believe that if you give it an open mind ,(Like "Rocky Horror")I guarantee that you'll love the songs and this movie equally as well. For this movie has a habit of growing on you just as "Rocky Horror" did.
Killers Three (1968)
The things kids will watch when they are bored
I was living in Barstow Ca. in 1968 when the movie The Killers Three arrived at the local theater. The trailer was enough to get me to pay my hard earned money to see this movie. I was really expecting a Bonnie And Clyde movie and I got Dick Clark playing a shy nerdy guy while Robert Walker and Diane Varsi played an poor attempt of reinacting Bonnie and Clyde. Needless to say it never went over well. Maybe this is why it never made it to video. Even as a kid I was left some what ripped off as I left the theater. After all the best parts where in the trailer of the movie. The movie was dull and pretty much pointless. By the way, Dick Clark gets killed so it wasn't a total let down.