| Richie |
Everybody knows him. The brute, the know it all, the tough-guy, the one who always starts the fire and keeps it fueled and burning.
Fade To Black features an early cameo performance by rising star and a very young Mickey Rourke as "Richie" the bullying
co-worker at the film studio who taunts and teases Eric Binford, (Dennis Christopher) just for fun. Eric is the shy and lonely
product of a lifelong series of put-downs and rejection that lives for the movies. Now he kills for them too! Those who laughed at,
teased and belittled the awkward, moped-riding misfit are now being knocked dead by his every performance. He lives in his own
fantasy world of cinematic illusion. His sanity takes a turn for the worse when he meets a beautiful Australian Marilyn Monroe
look-alike (Linda Kerridge), ironically named 'Marilyn', who befriends him and agrees to meet him for a movie date. When she,
quite by accident, runs late Eric feels rejected, stood-up and hurt. He then begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies he
knows by heart.. In doing so, he manages to include his enemies and the scenes into a killing spree against those who have tortured
and browbeat him.
Fade To Black features an early cameo performance by rising star and a very young Mickey Rourke as "Richie" the bullying
co-worker at the film studio who taunts and teases Eric Binford, (Dennis Christopher) just for fun. Eric is the shy and lonely
product of a lifelong series of put-downs and rejection that lives for the movies. Now he kills for them too! Those who laughed at,
teased and belittled the awkward, moped-riding misfit are now being knocked dead by his every performance. He lives in his own
fantasy world of cinematic illusion. His sanity takes a turn for the worse when he meets a beautiful Australian Marilyn Monroe
look-alike (Linda Kerridge), ironically named 'Marilyn', who befriends him and agrees to meet him for a movie date. When she,
quite by accident, runs late Eric feels rejected, stood-up and hurt. He then begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies he
knows by heart.. In doing so, he manages to include his enemies and the scenes into a killing spree against those who have tortured
and browbeat him.
Enter Richie now the victim of his rampage of revenge. 'Eric' dresses as Hop-along Cassidy and confronts his nemesis one night on
a deserted part of the boardwalk, walking out of the mist as a black silhouette he shoots his enemy. Afterwards, he plans a series of
murders patterned after his favorite movie classics. The obsessive film nerd soon takes on all the people that have bullied and
tormented him relentlessly; His boss, who clearly despises him, and his own wheel-chair bound aunt who thinks of him as a nuisance
and a screw up. Soon he begins dressing in character and killing more and more. For old classic movie buffs Fade To Black is full
of movie clips which parallel the storyline, often in a comedic way. True fans and connoisseurs of the obscure horror genre will view
this 1980 film as excellent cheese. The intriguing concept of the storyline falls a bit short along the way through the execution of some
of the scenes, but all in all, it's a fun movie to watch and even a bit chilling from time to time.
a deserted part of the boardwalk, walking out of the mist as a black silhouette he shoots his enemy. Afterwards, he plans a series of
murders patterned after his favorite movie classics. The obsessive film nerd soon takes on all the people that have bullied and
tormented him relentlessly; His boss, who clearly despises him, and his own wheel-chair bound aunt who thinks of him as a nuisance
and a screw up. Soon he begins dressing in character and killing more and more. For old classic movie buffs Fade To Black is full
of movie clips which parallel the storyline, often in a comedic way. True fans and connoisseurs of the obscure horror genre will view
this 1980 film as excellent cheese. The intriguing concept of the storyline falls a bit short along the way through the execution of some
of the scenes, but all in all, it's a fun movie to watch and even a bit chilling from time to time.
Fade to Black : 1980
written and direcred by Vernon Zimmerman
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