Recently picked this up from 88 Films as part of their classic slasher line, though I really wouldn't consider this a slasher in the classic sense, more a thriller/cop drama.
10 to Midnight revolves around a man called Warren Stacey who doesn't take rejection from women very well, his attempts at flirting and guess his general demeanour towards women comes off as creepy. Enough to go and get revenge on them by murdering them and anyone else that gets in his way.
Bronson's character Detective Leo Kessler and his new partner Paul are on the case to try track him down, however Warren seems one step ahead of him and plans his murders meticulously which provides him with solid albis to avoid prosecution. He also commits the murders in the nude and wears latex gloves to avoid any fingerprints.
He is eventually arrested and sent to court but due to evidence planted by Kessler to nail him due to nothing concrete sticking him to the crimes he did commit is set free and Kessler suspended.
Warren then gets fixated with Kessler's daughter Laurie who he sees at the funeral of first victim of the film as she was a friend of Laurie’s. This all leads up to the finale, where Warren goes to the nursing college where Laurie is and ends up murdering three of Laurie’s roommates while trying to get to her.
He doesn't get to Laurie but chases her through the streets naked, while Kessler goes after him and catches up to him. Warren says he cannot do anything to him as he will say he heard voices that made him do it and can sway it so people think he is crazy, and he will get away with it.
However, Kessler disagrees with him by shooting him in the head and finally stopping him from anymore murders....
I liked this film, though as I don't think it is a slasher film it is pretty close to real life horror in terms of the subject matter. In recent years there have been more similar murders due to men being rejected and the character of Warren is definitely what people would refer to as today as an incel. The final murders of the film I'm surprised didn't cause upset around the time as it is similar to what Ted Bundy did where he murdered a couple of students in the same building.
One scene did have me laughing where Bronson is waving the weirdest looking sex toy around in the interrogation room. Not sure how he managed to keep a straight face doing that!
A fairly decent film with a frightening reality of shit like incels are really dangerous!
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