tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post3674755338193520928..comments2024-02-21T20:51:54.249+00:00Comments on The Celluloid Highway: High Plains Drifter (1973)Shaun Anderson [The Celluloid Highway]http://www.blogger.com/profile/18066744649878418309noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-44189809099288146902012-04-07T14:47:33.822+01:002012-04-07T14:47:33.822+01:00Many thanks Jonny, your kind words are very much a...Many thanks Jonny, your kind words are very much appreciated! I think you're right to suggest a link between HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER and the slasher film. I mentioned it in an earlier comment but the Margeriti Euro-Western AND GOD SAID TO CAIN reminded me a lot of a prototype slasher film as well. What makes HIGH PLAINS so unusual is that Clint Eastwood is dabbling in these areas. This is is the Shaun Anderson [The Celluloid Highway]https://www.blogger.com/profile/18066744649878418309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-50902420483769362012-04-07T11:41:37.190+01:002012-04-07T11:41:37.190+01:00This is a really terrific review, Shaun - which, I...This is a really terrific review, Shaun - which, I believe, recognises the film for what it is rather than what others have assumed it to be in the past. <br /><br />I've always feel that 'High Plains Drifter' is a seminal, if not prototypical, slasher film - albeit with an obvious weight to it that far exceeds the later stalk 'n slash fodder (a genre that observed minimalism johnny6666https://www.blogger.com/profile/16749738500273163297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-45692132038396357792012-03-26T19:04:37.663+01:002012-03-26T19:04:37.663+01:00Yeah TEXAS, ADIOS is a solid western. Also of inte...Yeah TEXAS, ADIOS is a solid western. Also of interest from the same period is Lucio Fulci's MASSACRE TIME, which also stars Franco Nero :-)Shaun Anderson [The Celluloid Highway]https://www.blogger.com/profile/18066744649878418309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-8750937192567215402012-03-26T11:44:56.194+01:002012-03-26T11:44:56.194+01:00Just watched TEXAS, ADIOS. As soon as the last fra...Just watched TEXAS, ADIOS. As soon as the last framed rolled, I poured myself a fresh glass of beer, dashed to the computer and bought a copy via Amazon. A very rare example of a "classic" Euro-western, meaning: a Euro-production that very much looks and feels like a traditional American Western, even those of the revisionist varietal.<br /><br />Oh, and the first time I ever saw HIGH Greg Stuart Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11939384500810162186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-78513577783475710962012-03-19T14:02:51.593+00:002012-03-19T14:02:51.593+00:00Oh and many thanks for mentioning the music, I for...Oh and many thanks for mentioning the music, I forget to highlight this in the review!Shaun Anderson [The Celluloid Highway]https://www.blogger.com/profile/18066744649878418309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-79786341604442692272012-03-19T14:01:38.248+00:002012-03-19T14:01:38.248+00:00Good to hear from you Greg! I think I've said ...Good to hear from you Greg! I think I've said this before in a previous comment but certain things on The Celluloid Highway go down about as well as a case of syphillis. All of the American westerns I've reviewed in the past perform below average in terms of page views and comments. This sits in stark contrast to reviews of Euro-Westerns which always seem to do quite well. I think I'Shaun Anderson [The Celluloid Highway]https://www.blogger.com/profile/18066744649878418309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5751360814489146754.post-1071943068464070362012-03-19T08:39:29.577+00:002012-03-19T08:39:29.577+00:00Bravo, my friend. When I saw that there were no co...Bravo, my friend. When I saw that there were no comments shortly after you posted this superb review on Friday, I was surprised. When I sat to read it just now, I was more flummoxed than ever, even a bit peeved, to see that there were still no comments. No matter, my friend, as your work here reaches to new hights, and delves deeper than just the easy, run of the mill take more often attributed Greg Stuart Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11939384500810162186noreply@blogger.com