Another Son of Sam, 1977

 

This film is a bit weird, a proto-slasher that was filmed in 1975 and not released until 1977.

Has bugger all to do with any connection to the actual Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. Think they just cashed in on the title to get people to go see this film when it finally was released. I have read it was originally called Hostages but changed to as I said before to cash in on the Son of Sam murders.

Plot is a killer escapes from a psychiatric hospital on and goes on a killing spree around a college town, causing a headache for the local police who eventually get the SWAT team and the killers mother in to stop him!

Another Son of Sam isn't great, mean it is watchable, but I found there were to many freeze frames that lingered and some scenes that were daft like the scene with singer Johnny Charro that seemed longer then it should have been! The film isn't even that longer at about 71 minutes but still feels a bit too long and little all over the place.

Did find some interesting stuff from IMDB from people that worked on this film, that a lot of the cast were local, and some were local TV newscasters!

Also, someone wrote that they poured money into this film but never seen it or heard from the director again! Thinking maybe the story behind how this film got made may be better than the film itself!

I wouldn't go out my way to rewatch this, but it was an extra on AFGA's release of The Zodiac Killer Blu-ray, that's if anyone is interested in giving it a watch....