Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.
FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.
Cristi_Ciopron It's a very lyrical take on the events, and not a clinical rendering, the loner is a generic misfit, and his delirium seems at once striking and basic, and the idea of the movie was to convey the delirium of a drastically lonely misfit, as eerily as possible, and this delirium is strongly conveyed; its sense of spookiness and uncanny suggests comparisons to other vaguely similar movies from the '80s and '90s, including Lynch, the Coens (and, closer to our days, 'The Machinist'). It doesn't come across as exploitative, the way 'Scream Bloody Murder' is; on the contrary, I would of liked the storyline to linger more in the deserted hotel. The script doesn't have delusions of phony quirkiness, it has gusto, feel; the protagonist is a misfit, sank into insanity, and the script what the delirium feels like. This movie expresses strongly what it has to express, because there are no delusions of artiness, and it's indeed unnerving, quirky and spooky. The delirium becomes indistinguishable from the reality; maybe the brother did show up at the hotel, maybe someone gave the lead character a gun.Some of the acting is perhaps less then good.Pamela Baker plays the psychiatrist; Teresa Mae Allen, a better actress, plays the wife.The obviously apt script belongs to a good writer, Yordan, whose heyday has been in the early '60s (and preceded by 1 ½ decades of also impressive scripts).
Gunnar_Runar_Ingibjargarson From the description of this movie, it sounds like one of those Texas Chainsaw Massacre clones they made so many of during the 80s. That's what I expected: Not a great cinematic masterpiece, but 90 minutes of mindless entertainment. Unfortunately, this was not at all what I expected. The movie is about a guy with hallucinations and then goes berserk, killing people in a diner. This scene is a couple of minutes at the end of the film, and up until that point it's s a bad attempt at some kind of psychological thriller.Very stupid movie which will not fright you in any way. Don't check this one.
CMRKeyboadist Talk about a misunderstood film! Bloody Wednesday is a movie about one mans decline into utter madness and the reasons as to why he murdered 36 people in a coffee shop one night. Written for the screen by Academy Award Winner Philip Yordan, you would think this movie would get a better wrap.The movie circles around a man named Harry, an auto mechanic who is going through a nasty little divorce. When Harry gets fired from his job he starts really losing his mind by walking into a church completely naked singing Halleluya. He is committed to a hospital for sometime. Whe he is released his brother gives him a place to stay, a secluded rundown hotel. It is here that Harry quickly starts losing his mind as he sees ghosts, his life is threatened by street toughs, his teddy bear starts talking to him, etc etc. This all leads up to the obvious disaster at the end.I thought this was a most enjoyable film. Originally I put this movie on to just go to sleep to, but the movie kept my interest to the very end. What makes this movie so much fun is really seeing the reactions of the people around Harry as they see him slip into insanity. This movie is no masterpiece writing as most of it is rather humorous. The basic message of the movie was well thought out though. I don't know if this was based on a true story or not, but, if it was I wouldn't rely on this movie to tell an accurate story of what happened.Overall, an enjoyable piece of trash. Definitely worth watching again. 6/10
Coventry Beware of 80's horror movies of which the DVD-cover repeatedly 'warns' you about the extremely graphic content and/or shocking images of the film
Nearly always, this is just a method to divert your attention of the fact that it's a very incompetent and cheap production. In this case, it's even worse, as "Bloody Wednesday" turns out very boring and not bloody at all! The only "graphic content" is found at the beginning and ending of the film and that actually is twice the same sequence! (Oops
that was a spoiler!). The "story" of Bloody Wednesday revolves on a thirty-something loser called Harry! Harry has got some serious issues
He has legal conversations with his teddy bear (I'm serious!) and he walks into church services naked, singing Hallelujah-praise the Lord! When Harry is fired for the umpteenth time, his brother hires his as a janitor for an abandoned hotel where he then loses his mind completely. I suppose this movie was meant to be a psychological portrait of a man unable to function in modern society, constantly trying to fool the audience by showing events that are whether real
.or the imagination of a sick man. No matter what this film tries to achieve, it fails
There's absolutely no structure, not a single idea is elaborated properly (the hotel-suicides, Harry's desires towards his female doctor
) and the inexperienced star Raymond Elmendorf lacks the required talent to play a demanding role like this. Most of the time, he weakly imitates a combination of the characters Jack Torrance (from "The Shining") and Norman Bates (from "Psycho") but he hasn't got personality himself. The total lack of violence and sleaze is unacceptable and there's absolutely no trace of twisted humor in the script
Or maybe it was so lousy that I didn't even notice it. I find it rather surprising that this turkey was written by Philip Jordan, as his other 80's trash-horror films are a lot more entertaining (Night Train to Terror, The Unholy
). In case you want to see a good and truly raw drama handling about urban-insanity, keep your eyes open for Abel Ferrara's "The Driller Killer" but do avoid this garbage at all costs.
