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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: Image Entertainment EAN: 0014381317626 Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Image Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Image Entertainment MPN: ID3176SWDVD Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Image Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 12, 2006 Running Time: 161 minutes Studio: Image Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: January 01, 1968 Editorial Review: Product Description: Lost horror from Brian De Palma! Love-starved Karen is startled to learn that her boyfriend Christopher earns a living making nudie movies with a creep named Otto (the always odd William Finley). Believing Christopher is only in the skinflick scene to make enough money to divorce his wife Karen steals some cash for him but while attempting to deliver it is attacked by Otto and his ice pick... To reveal more would spoil things except to note that Murder a la Mod culminates in a surprisingly gory murder that not only echoes Psycho but anticipates snuff films as well. Brian De Palma's directorial debut is a witty bloody funny cynical and downright nasty little gem that until now has remained maddeningly impossible to see since its theatrical release in 1968 (where it played a single New York theater). Full of the same gritty vibe as his Greetings and Sisters Murder a la Mod is De Palma at his most De Mented!Plus: $90000 in stolen cash shakes up a bunch of grubby bohemians when they discover a wounded bank robber hiding in the basement of a beatnik coffee house run by a phony poet (gravelly-voiced Lionel Stander) in The Moving Finger a theatrically unreleased art house/exploitation film about Greenwich Village lowlifes that perfectly captures the hazy twilight of the Fifties beat scene: "The bus tourists are in! Start looking decadent!"System Requirements:Running Time: 80 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 014381317626 Manufacturer No: ID3176SWDVD Average Rating:
 Rating: - Quite possibly Finley's strangest role yet.As the title said, I do believe this is William Finley's weirdest role ever, judging by the films I've seen with him in the cast. Murder a la Mod is simply amazing, in my opinion, but at times it's kind of confusing. Alas, all is resolved in the end, though. Superb movie all in all. Rating: - Murder a la Mod is GeniusWhat a great surprise this movie was. If you like De Palma's dark side, this is a must see. This was an innovative film way ahead of its time. It made great use of split screens to follow different characters. William Finley turned his his best performance as the creepy Otto. Findley's perfomance, mostly dialogue free, was very Chaplinesque. |
