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From the moment they met it was murder
A California metal sculptor becomes a suspect after someone kills his gallery-owner lover.
Paint It Black
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Покрась это черным, Píntalo de negro
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France
Cannes Film Festival
Theatrical limited
28 Mar 1990
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France
11 May 1989
- Premiere Cannes Film Festival
USA
28 Mar 1990
- Theatrical limitedR
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"i want a hot fudge sundae or a pitcher of gin, i'm having an anxiety attack!!"
i guess this is like an erotic thriller/slasher mashup a little bit by way of a bucket of blood? which isn't even revealed until the end!! i mean i love a shocking twist as much as the next gal i just also love a bucket of blood and i think its cool to see corpses get entombed in clay for the full runtime of a movie! idk i'm not really sure i'd call this a erotic thriller honestly but i rly feel like the genre can be incredibly malleable if u open ur heart + mind to it & frequently often hard to pin down…
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mostly tepid late-80s neo-noir/erotic thriller from River's Edge director Tim Hunter that's about what you'd expect and arguably derives its title from Martin Landau's dye job
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Lionsgate has this awesome Roku channel called Vidmark, which is named after the defunct home video division of Trimark Pictures, which is owned by Lionsgate. They make it look like an old school video store in a digital world, think less Netflix and more Vidiots and much like a video store, I was intrigued by this movie when I saw the artwork complete with the “Vestron Video Collector’s Series” banner. This is the dumbest Vestron title I’ve seen since Film House Fever and that movie is awful. This thriller follows a metal art sculptor (Rick Rossivich) who is having an affair with a beautiful woman (Sally Kirkland) that is in charge of an art exhibition but the affair grinds… -
One of many many evil obsessive fan thrillers, this one really scrapes the bottom of the barrel and has virtually nothing compelling about it other than some cool dead bodies and Martin Landau's really badly dyed hair.
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Kinda hot mess that Tim Hunter sort of rewrote at the last minute, and it really shows, but it's the kind of Cinemax-core I really enjoy and my man Tim gets the job done.
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I thought for the first part of this I wasn’t going to like it, but it picked up into a pretty decent fun time. Absolutely feels like a film directed by someone who worked on Twin Peaks (Tim Hunter is two for two in this front now), but ultimately it’s funny that I decided to start this year with a movie no one has ever heard about lol.
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Rick Rossovich plays a sculptor who becomes a murder suspect when the gallery owner who he was seeing is murdered.
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After establishing a name for himself with with THE RIVER'S EDGE,director Tim Hunter found himself behind the director's chair for this noir-esque thriller that is highly reminiscent of thriller such as BAD INFLUENCE and FATAL ATTRACTION,as up-and-coming metal sculptor artist Rick Rossovich(THE TERMINATOR,SPELLBINDER) is having an affair with his art gallery boss(Sally Kirkland[TWO EVIL EYES,BRUCE ALMIGHTY]) who he learns is cheating him out of his artist pay as he finds himself developing a relationship with the adult daughter(Julie Carmen[IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS,FRIGHT NIGHT:PART 2{1988}]) of an art gallery owner(Martin Landau[ED WOOD,THE MAJESTIC]) who offers him a major paying gig to sell his art at his gallery,only for trouble to begin in Rossovich's life when he rescues a stabbing victim(Doug…
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It’s not a hidden gem, it’s just… hidden. There’s really nothing to it. It’s an inert, amorphous blob. Though I do enjoy the light layer of homoeroticism smeared all over it.
Rick Rossovich is a black hole of charisma, but Doug Savant is totally charming! I think it makes sense he found his niche in TV and not movies, but he’s doing a very serviceable impression of Michael Biehn in The Fan here.
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What an odd follow up to River’s Edge.
A flat erotic thriller which is mostly devoid of sex. A murder thriller which barely has any killing.
It’s stylish enough to remain watchable but definitely needed more integration of the skull plate.