Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich
- New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater
- Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich
- Excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin’s 1969 book The Director’s Event: Interviews with Five American Film-MakerNew cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde
