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Targets (1968) Rank 4 Reviews
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Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)
A beautiful, disturbing, masterful fiction-filmmaking debut for Bogdanovich ...read the complete Targets movie review at Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
It's based on a story by Polly Platt (at the time Bogdanovich's wife). ...read the complete Targets movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
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The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)
Which is the real Peter Bogdanovich: the neckerchief-festooned raconteur who spills anecdotes about Orson Welles, the scandal-plagued burnout with a history of broken relationships and box-office failures, or the under-appreciated cinema wunderkind who on ...read the complete Targets movie review at The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
frightening in a way few horror movies are because it taps so directly into real fears ...read the complete Targets movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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by John Farr "The Be... on June 28, 2007
Financed by Roger Corman, who lent real-life aging horror star Karloff to newcomer Bogdanovich for two ...
by n0s4a2 on May 02, 2007
Made in 1967, Targets is Peter Bogdonovich's first and best film, and one of Boris Karloff's most memorable. It concerns an ordinary, clean-cut young guy who one day decides to take his gun collection atop a tower and shoot people on the freeway-- no ...
by Raegan Butcher on July 27, 2006
I have been reading about this movie for thirty years and after renting it from the incomparable MOVIE MADNESS I can only say I wish I had seen it sooner. It really stands out as an exceptional example of low-budget exploitation cinema.The DVD is worth ...
by joseph Corey "par... on November 04, 2005
This Karloff's last great appearance in a movie. It does an amazing job of summing up his life and giving a human face to the monster. Even though it's a Corman produced flick, it doesn't feel cheap or rushed. Karloff plays an actor who is ready to ...
by Jeffrey Leach on August 20, 2005
What does the name Peter Bogdanovich mean to you? Until I read about him on a certain well-known movie Internet site, I associated him with three ...
by gobirds2 on November 28, 2003
Peter Bogdanovich produced, directed, edited and wrote the screenplay to TARGETS. The film has a curious and dichotomous quality to it. On one hand Bogdanovich handled the ...
by Orion "orionca" on November 28, 2003
Boris Karloff gave one of his finest performances in this film and proved that he didn't have to be the movie's monster to be the star. The transfer quality is excellent, the special features aren't much but they provide great value. It was a kick for ...
by Michael R Gates on November 19, 2003
In the early 1960s, celebrated director Peter ...
by tvtv3 "tvtv3" on November 11, 2003
TARGETS was the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich and was one of the last films that Boris Karloff ever made. The movie ties two seemingly separate stories together and unites them in a climax at a drive-in movie theatre. Karloff plays an aged actor ...
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