Month: October 2017

After collaborating on 1963's "The Pink Panther" and 1964's "A Shot in the Dark," director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers were interested in taking a break, moving on to different creative endeavors, switching their attention to 1968's "The Party." Producer Walter Mirisch had other plans, determined to bring back Sellers's bumbling detective Inspector Clouseau even if he couldn't persuade Sellers to return to the job. Enter Alan Arkin, who takes over the role for "Inspector Clouseau," with the respected and practiced actor tasked with replicating Sellers in many ways to sustain the franchise, which was growing in popularity with audiences. However, as talented as Arkin is, he does have his thespian limitations, and imitating Sellers-as-Clouseau is one of them.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

"One Dark Night" is a horror film originally released in 1983. It is not R-rated. During a time when nearly every genre picture was trying to be the most gore-rific, angriest production around, this little movie plays it relatively calm, joining the likes of "Poltergeist" as a chiller that's mostly chill, only raising hell periodically. It's the first feature from co-writer/director Tom McLoughlin, who would go on to rated R shenanigans with 1986's "Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives," but here, in his debut, he hopes to channel the world of Roger Corman, trying to create something creepy with a limited budget, setting the effort inside a single location for most of the run time. "One Dark Night" takes an eternity to get where it needs to go, but it's worth the wait, finding McLoughlin inventive with escalation, getting in a few genuinely eerie moments along the way.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com