Plot summary
The story concerns a quiet insurance agent / Vietnam veteran, played by Tim O'Kelly, who murders his young wife, his mother and a grocery delivery boy at home and then initiates an afternoon shooting rampage from atop a Los Angeles area oil refinery. Several motorists and passengers are wounded or killed on the nearby freeway. When the police respond and start to close in on him he flees and resumes his shootings at a Reseda drive-in theater where an aging horror film icon is making a final promotional appearance before retirement.
This is an interesting movie that came to my mind after what happened in Denver, today. This movie is a very serious movie about a man who kill people in a drive-in. It is a movie, ok, but the subject is about a killer that kill at random and specially kill spectators. It is also a very good depiction of American society in the 60'ts. But we are plague with the same events since then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targets
Edit: clarity.
The story concerns a quiet insurance agent / Vietnam veteran, played by Tim O'Kelly, who murders his young wife, his mother and a grocery delivery boy at home and then initiates an afternoon shooting rampage from atop a Los Angeles area oil refinery. Several motorists and passengers are wounded or killed on the nearby freeway. When the police respond and start to close in on him he flees and resumes his shootings at a Reseda drive-in theater where an aging horror film icon is making a final promotional appearance before retirement.
This is an interesting movie that came to my mind after what happened in Denver, today. This movie is a very serious movie about a man who kill people in a drive-in. It is a movie, ok, but the subject is about a killer that kill at random and specially kill spectators. It is also a very good depiction of American society in the 60'ts. But we are plague with the same events since then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targets
Edit: clarity.
