Synopsis
Schizophrenia... When the left hand doesn't know who the right hand is killing!!
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
1976 Directed by Pete Walker
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
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Absolutely terrible for the sensationalism of schizophrenia in the most negative way, but with a tagline like “When the left hand doesn’t know who the right is killing!” you just can’t even begin to take it seriously so it’s not hard to release the pearls and sit back and enjoy the fun.
It’s really a whodunnit in which we know exactly whodunnit, but I loved all the characters and all the lovely British stuff. I am a pretty hardcore Anglophile so I’m always in love with everything they do there even though it’s obviously somewhat romanticized in tv and film. Still, the way a British person can discover a dead body and react by saying “well what’s all this then?” is just the most delightful thing to me.
I’ve yet to see a Walker film I didn’t enjoy and this definitely doesn’t break that streak!
"Time for the reckoning, Jean."
Justice for Lynne Frederick.
Lately it seems like all I do is think about which actors I can still watch and which ones I can't. I halfheartedly joked in my Mainstream review that famous people - well, meaning men specifically - often get second (and third... and fourth...) chances, regardless of whatever they may have done to warrant ending their careers. Remember when William Hurt died and I pointed out in a review and comments how he treated at least two women? That was followed shortly afterward by a thinkpiece published in Salon about Marlee Matlin and "the silent epidemic of abuse" for disabled women, then a Variety essay by Donna Kaz about her experiences…
Schwarze Handschuhe, ein Unbekannter mordet, nackte Haut......sind wir gar in Italien gelandet? Nein, nach England hat es uns verschlagen und der Reiseführer ist hier der
Genrespezi Pete Walker.
Und , lohnt sich Reise ? Leider nur bedingt. Die Laufzeit von knapp 110 Minuten ist definitiv zu lang, zuviel Füllszenen die nichts beitragen, eine Seance mit Hokupokus und weißen hervorstehenden Augen, um noch ein bißchen den populären Exorzisten-Zug zu fahren und ein Titel, der eigentlich zuviel verrät.
Welche Schauwerte bietet das Ganze nun? Giallofreunde bekommen ihre schwarzen Handschuhe, die Nudisten einige nackte Haut und der Goremeister bekommt sein rohes Schnitzel mit Messer, Hammer, Stricknadel udgl. kredenzt.
Die Mär um die Eiskönigin ist recht solide inszeniert, der Schlußtwist ist schon von Minute Eins klar, aber es gibt auch definitiv schlimmere Arten, seine Zeit zu vergeuden.
Für die Pete Walker-Fanfraktion und Freunde von Hammer und Strickwerkzeug.
This is brilliant, one of my favourite Pete Walker films. Even though I thought I remembered the outcome it's written and directed so well that I was still questioning everything all the way through. It also has a few savage kills and one of the oddest seance scenes I've ever seen.
This was fab! It started off from the guys perspective and then changed to the womans leaving me not sure who or if both were the nutter. As it then flipped from one to the other I was still none the wiser which I just adore in a film. It was a very slow burn but gee was it worth it for that payoff. The ending was chilling! There was also some brutal kills, a freaky eyeballs seance scene and it had a giallo like feel at times. I still have some to see but of the Pete Walker films I would put this one 3rd behind The House Of Whipcord and House Of Mortal Sin.
Day 16. a movie directed by Pete Walker
Given the title, unfortunately it doesn't take much to smell what is coming a mile off. The lead up I found to be very drab, but pip pip 4p for a cuppa tea.
Sudamarcus how did you do that to the girls face. The puffy opaque eyeballs did grab my attention.
Circa 1960, six-year-old Samantha witnesses the brutal slaying of her mother. In 1976, the murderer, Haskin (Jack Watson) is released from prison, and spots a newspaper story which reports the grown-up Samantha – now an ice skater of some celebrity – is due to be married. And so Haskin makes plans for a “final reckoning”.
Essentially a slasher or an English giallo positioned at the psychological end of the horror spectrum, Schizo likes to play games with its audience, begging the question, “Is everything quite as it seems?” The pithily provocative title clearly invokes a celebrated Hitchcock film and deals with not dissimilar themes, although it rather cleverly depicts a subtle inversion of that movie’s most iconic moment.
Reasonably early…
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Schizo...1976
Another British horror flick from Pete Walker, another overlong kind of boring horror flick from Pete Walker.
Someone is stalking Lynne Frederick, and killing those around her.
Who is the responsible party? Is it her sketchy psychiatrist Leonard? (Jack Fraser) or her mothers creepy former lover, Mr Red Herring (Jack Watson) Will you last until the end of this overlong snooze fest?
I just did not feel this one. It's hard for me to enjoy most of Pete Walker's films.
It's way to long for starters. Second, any moments of tension are broken by mundane…
A servicable slasher regarding a young woman haunted by her past, "Schizo" is nicely put together but never fully engages. The film packs some nice jolts and obvious twists; its performances are solid. Though it does not necessarily stir or have the atmosphere needed to make it memorable, the film works hard to thrill its audience and almost succeeds.
"Time for the reckoning, Jean"
I love me a good beige soaked proto slasher.
For the most part I enjoy Schizo. It plays out in a creeping matter. A mysterious past come back to haunt and wielding a menacing aura that comes equipped with mystery, a steel blade and a berserk, tormented mind. The build may take its sweet time and like the previous films I've watched it tends to grow vines of boredom that infect the progression but it never reaches the peak of wanting to bash my head against a wall. Some cool giallo vibes are here as well.
It's becoming more and more obvious that Walker is very much a storyteller. He loves building his world of…
And now back to the works of Pete Walker and British horror, the land of methodical filmmaking where patience is indeed a virtue.
The tagline for Schizo may instantly be an all time favorite: “Schizophrenia—where the left hand doesn’t know who the right hand is killing”. Oh my goodness. More of this content please!
In this film, we get the story of Samantha, a woman the newspaper calls the Ice Queen because she is apparently some sort of figure skater. Unfortunately, the skating does not seem to play a major role in this story. If you want to see a horror film with a great ice skating scene, I recommend Curtains. But I digress.
Samantha is about to marry some dude…
The entire movie was flat. The set-up to the ending could’ve really been something, but instead felt like torturously long and useless exposition. It also would’ve been a lot cooler if it wasn’t trying to dunk on people with schizophrenia but it was the 70s I guess.