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| Lynne Frederick in SCHIZO Year: 1975 Rating: **** |
Controversial low-budget-exploitation director Pete Walker comparably taking a more traditional horror/slasher route in what's still a groundbreaking horror/slasher suspense flick SCHIZO that, like its primary inspiration PSYCHO, plays deliberately on a twist that envelopes pretty much everyone and everything...
All while being deliberately contrived into an overly-obvious antagonistic lens on old, troubled and seemingly psychotic Jack Watson, desperately attempting to reunite with daughter Lynne Frederick, a championship skater about to be married to a man far too old and dull for someone so young and downright gorgeous...
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| Stephanie Beacham and John Leyton in SCHIZO |
Both on paper and within the actual story, real life crooner turned GREAT ESCAPE tunnel king John Leyton is better suited to Frederick's assistant Stephanie Beacham, the NIGHTCOMERS and DRACULA AD 1972 scream-queen, primed for her very own slasher flick while benignly stuck in Lynne Frederick's...
Who's an edgy 1970's British scream-queen in her own right, and would soon gain fame marrying Peter Sellers but has acquired a cult following from SCHIZO and another suspenseful cult-horror PHASE IV, also banking on a surprise-ending having to do with her character, aptly balancing chase/naive vulnerability and enigmatic prowess...
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| Lynne Frederick in SCHIZO |
Perhaps the nefarious narrowing of her otherwise wide/bright eyes prematurely spoils what director Walker doesn't really seem to be completely obscuring... in a b-movie much deeper than intended, mainly because of the above-par characters and acting...
Flowing alongside chilling body-count deaths that occur at the right moments to keep Frederick fitfully terrorized while the audience anticipates another gloriously gory moment— in what's a nifty hybrid of R-rated exploitation and classic Hitchcockian thriller.
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