Well, the quote comes from the end which seems to be riffing on Psycho, wherein a psychologist explains the killerās motivation / alternate personality. (Itās a dubbed Italian film, which is why the sentence doesnāt quite seem to make sense.)
Iām glad you asked, Chico! It seems to be a callback to Fulciās earlier Giallo, 1972ās Donāt Torture a Duckling, Italian title, Non si sevizia un paperino. (Paperino is the Italian name for Donald Duck.)
No one has yet been able to definitively say whether or not he was trying to be deliberately funny in offering up a Donald Duck voiced serial killer.
Tales of the Stitch combines her love of horror movies and crochet to make some really great things. If you donāt mind the occasional swear word, sheās fun to Follow on Twitter.
Edit: now I see thatās not her work, but what a nice shoutout!
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Dir: Charles B. Pierce* Starring Ben Johnson, Dawn Wells
In 1946, a hooded serial killer (a la Part 2 Jason Voorhees) terrorizes Texarkana. Based on a true story. No really.
A decidedly mixed success. The horror scenes are quite well done with appropriate doses of shock, suspense and gruesomeness (although perhaps the death by trombone should have been re-thought). The surrounding scenes of narrated true crime arenāt nearly as compelling, but perhaps provide a useful frame for the horror, a calm with which to contrast the storm. And then thereās the ācomedyā with an inept deputy (played by the director), goofy driving scenes, decoy cops in drag, and painful music in case you miss the joke. Probably not as bad as the comedy bits in the original Last House on the Left, but the rest of that film was so much stronger (and more grueling) that even bad jokes provided some needed respite.
Still worth a free viewing, if one digs this sort of thing, but not a must see.
*Director Charles B. Pierceās first film was the hugely successful pseudo-Bigfoot pseudo-documentary The Legend of Boggy Creek. Probably his biggest hit, itās had at least three sequels, including the Pierce helmed Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues which was eventually roasted on MST3K. On the other hand, Pierce and frequent collaborator Earl E. Smith created the original story for Dirty Harry flick Sudden Impact.
didnāt know Stalling worked for Disney early on. (for those that donāt know, heās better known as the guy who scored and did music effects for Warner Bros; Bugs, Daffy &etc)
Good old Ub.
the shot where the first skelly swallows the ācameraā was inspired.
And then thereās this recycling of some of the same animation. Not completely unoriginal though, and an apparent influence on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Alas, the AC/DC - Disney āHellās Bellsā mashup seems to have been taken down.
