Product Details

• Actors: Arch Hall Jr., Helen Hovey, Richard Alden, Marilyn Manning, Don Russell
• Directors: James Landis
• Format: Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Raunchy Tonk
• DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001J65RCK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,412 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Johnny Legend Presents The Sadist" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 01/27/2009

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unrecognized classic is worth seeing, June 7, 2010

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This review is from: Johnny Legend Presents The Sadist (DVD)

Years (perhaps decades) ahead of its time, this tense, disturbing thriller is ripe for rediscovery by home video horror enthusiasts. The film has been available for years on VHS and some inferior DVDs, but this Johnny Legend edition is struck from a clean, nearly pristine print (there are some scratches, and the sound occasionally has bumps and other minor issues). Arch Hall, Jr. gives an intense, effective performance (though perhaps not a great one) as the thuggish lout who terrorizes three schoolteachers (and others) at a dingy roadside gas station. The film unfolds in real time, just one of the startling, revolutionary, and compelling elements that make it so memorable and involving. A "B" movie, certainly, but so efficiently produced and so modern in feel and exposition that it could be re-shot today from the same screenplay, and work equally well on audiences. Audacious, polished, and suspenseful, "The Sadist" is one of those remarkable finds that deserves a wider audience. Be aware: many inferior prints are circulating. This Johnny Legend edition is the one to buy, and own.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'Charlie' Tibbs: "I've been hurt by others... and I'll hurt them. I'll make them suffer like I've suffered.", June 1, 2011

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This review is from: Johnny Legend Presents The Sadist (DVD)

I just saw a 'B' grade movie that was SO GOOD, I still can't believe it.

When the name Arch Hall Jr. is on a picture's cast list, it usually means a real bow wow, but not this time! (Think: WILD GUITAR here-- feh!)

This 1963 b&w thriller is part of Diamond Entertainment's KILLERS COLLECTION. The good news is: it's a real clean dub and the set is very inexpensive.

OK, the movie is called THE SADIST. It's about a 20-year-old serial killer and his girlfriend that terrorize three schoolteachers whose car breaks down in a remote area of California (near Needles). They make it as far as a well-off-the-road gas station/scrap yard, and while searching for a fuel pump among the wrecks in this seemingly abandoned place, the psychopath gets the jump on them.

What follows is an hour of agonizing tension. As Diamond's synopsis describes it:
"Every time we think that the film can't get any crueler, the insanely giggling Hall pulls off another outrage."

There is NO WAY that I'll be seeing anything else this week that's better or more of a total surprise. This one's rare!

If you're at all interested, get this JOHNNY LEGEND edition, or take a chance on KILLERS COLLECTION.