Touches You

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Best movie of this year hands down!

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is another one of those 'townspeople infected by toxins' films along the lines of The Crazies, Nightmare City and Mutant. Especially Mutant, as if this film also has Wings Hauser and Bo Hopkins in it.Bo, once again, is playing a cop, and Wings, as you can probably imagine, is playing a moron. Both of them end up in an isolated town which has, very covertly, had its water supply contaminated as some kind of government experiment by an albino Brion James and his cohorts. Anybody that drinks that water goes berserk and starts attacking everybody else. Much hilarity ensues.Bo and Wings, and George Kennedy, and probably some other folks I've forgotten about, find themselves up against an ever growing army of crazy folks running around beating each other up or shooting each other. Wings' wife also gets infected, leading to a scene which calls for the great man to 'emote'. I was rolling around on the floor laughing.This is pure B-movie hokum, but an extremely enjoyable one for all that. I think this may be down to the director being the same guy who made the infamous Island of Death, probably one of the most offensive (and funny) films I've ever watched. He might be making trash, but he's a technically competent director.Highly recommended for folks who love a good b-movie. It slides a bit at the end when it suddenly turns into a western, but it's a fun journey all the same.Look out for the motorcycle explosion scene - so over the top I didn't stop laughing for about ten minutes.

A completely albino Brion James(..everything white, including his eyes and little hat)works for some sort of terrorist organization as he, surrounded by gun-toting hoods in suits, injects a desert community's water supply with a type of toxic liquid which causes those who drink it in the community to go apesh!t, some sort of homicidal rage with their faces skin tone turning a shade of green not to mention their blood. A lawyer, Ken(Wings Hauser)and his wife Cheri(Kimberly Beck)are on a weeks vacation who happen to enter this town after picking up a hitchhiker, Reilly(Bo Hopkins..is this guy cool or what?), an ex-cop thrown off the force for murdering a rapist. Canyonland, the name of the little town, a tiny spot surrounded by a desert mountainous landscape, is the community whose citizens have become homicidal and extremely powerful. The sheriff, Hanks(George Kennedy)and his daughter, Julia(Kimberly Ross)must somehow contain order when chaos has erupted all around them, needing the assistance of Ken & Reilly as once-normal folks attempt to attack the group and each other.This was quite a multi-genre movie. Parts horror, action, western, and zombie movie, it kind of feels like "The Crazies" set in around Utah. The cast is why I'd recommend it to genre fans, but there are lots of action sequences and bizarre attacks such as when one old-timer in overalls named Charlie goes berserk, stabbing a diner waitress in the hand with a knife, tossing Ken and Reilly throughout the establishment like rag dolls, stealing a cop car after throwing Julia over the hood(!), driving his car through a lady with curls still in her hair when she attempts to curse him out for ramming into the back of her vehicle, blasting cars with a shot-gun, and even shooting his own son(..a deputy attempting to secure the shot-gun away from pa)point-blank. You have a mother chasing after her daughter with a butcher knife. A motorcycle rider shooting folks on the street before hitting a car with his bike exploding into a car. Even Ken's wife(..who happen to drink water in the diner)wigs out throwing Julia into a wall! Poor Julia gets thrown around the room by an unhinged Cheri as Ken and Reilly must deal with a scrawny crazed auto mechanic in a junk yard.Looking for something different..this is it. Fans of Wings Hauser will get a kick out of playing against type as a "tenderfoot" yuppie lawyer. And, Bo Hopkins gets to be a laconic hero, chewing gum, wearing his shades, and knowing exactly what needs to be done. And, good ole George Kennedy again portrays the fatherly, trustworthy man of wisdom with reserve and dignity..his fate will leave many mourning.Try it out if just for Brion James as the mute in white who has the technology to render a town without the power to communicate or leave when he sets up an electronic perimeter which shuts down the ability to leave town in your vehicle or call out for help.Lots of shoot-outs and gushing green blood. Even a helicopter chase around mountains. Bodies in slow motion as they propel in the air.

I saw this movie when it first came out, . Enjoyed the characters, first thought this was spin off of Death . Wish movie, do to name & background of the Bo Hopkins character . (is explained in part during the café fighting scene) . With it's low budget, they did fairly good with the movie . Imagine what could have been if they had double the money . Only real scary part (do to today's terrorists activities, is the .idea of poisoning the water supply) . This age of remakes, maybe someone should dust-off the script . and with a bigger budget, might make a decent movie..It's B-Movie sci-fi & western, no more, nothing less.

I loved this movie. Plan 9 could learn a few things about schlock from my man Wings. Extremely entertaining if you have a well-developed sense of the absurd. If you don't, you will likely hate it, but isn't there enough hate in the world today?hugs, grimmoh