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Fun blast from the past, April 5, 2011
This review is from: Stanley: Special Edition (DVD)
I saw this in the theater in 1972 and had not seen it in the 39 years since 'til I recently rented the DVD. Although not as "good" on the small screen as it was on the big screen back in the day, it was fun to see again. Let's just say if you're afraid of snakes, there's a lot of them in this movie so you may want to proceed with caution - it could give you nightmares. Not a great movie by any stretch - the acting is only fair at best and it contains cheesy early 70's music at the beginning & end of the film during the credits. This might be considered a drive-in classic though and, double-featured with "Frogs" (that came out the same year), you can have a fun & slithery Saturday night late show. Aside from the film itself, one of my favorite features on the DVD is when you insert & load it into your player, this cool animated view from the perspective from a car's driver's seat comes on and your car winds into the drive-in cinema, you see other cars in there and those big drive-in speakers, and then the up on the outdoor screen is the DVD's menu!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Revenge Film With A Twissssssst, March 29, 2010
This review is from: Stanley: Special Edition (DVD)
I love Stanley! It's a kind of Death Wish with snakes(and without Charles Bronson) Tim is a Native American recently back from Vietnam. He lives alone out in the Everglades, refusing most contact with the human world, even his own tribe. Tim loves snakes more than humans, and keeps MANY of them around his shack, but the apple of Tim's eye is a rattlesnake named Stanley.
Tim seems to be heading down that road to the laughing academy, and a visit by a racist and murderous group of thugs puts Tim and Stanley into action. Tim goes on a revenge fueled killing spree using Stanley and a mess of other rattlesnakes as weapons. When an exotic dancer betrays Tim-by biting the heads off the snakes he lends her for use in her dancing act at the whim of her jerk-0 boyfriend/manager-he goes after her as well. The film ends in an act where Tim kidnaps the daughter of the mafia type dude he killed earlier. Seems Tim needs a little human companionship after all and decides to show her his pet trouser snake. This relationship throws everything into turmoil and it all comes to a head in the end.
Needless to say, Stanley is a fun bit of drive-in style late night fun. Not overly violent or gory(though some of the animal cruelty is unpleasant), the film originally was released with a PG rating back in the 70s. This DVD is the uncut version, which isn't a bloodbath or anything, but does jack it up past the PG level a bit.
Definitely a must see for exploitation and grindhouse fans.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Stanley, August 16, 2011
This review is from: Stanley: Special Edition (DVD)
Incredible behind the scenes on the Special edition. I saw this movie when I was a kid & it brought back memories.
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