The Sadist

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Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release Year: 1963
Country: USA
Runtime: 92
Languages: English
Director: James Landis
Sound: Mono
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Never before a motion picture Rampacked with... Suspense... Terror... Sudden Shock, as The SADIST

A Human Volcano Of Unpredictable Terror!

What Fiendish Passion Twisted His Mind--Made Him Torment, Torture, Kill?

Writing by: James Landis - (written by)

Produced by: L. Steven Snyder - producer

Cast: Arch Hall Jr. - Charles A. Charlie Tibbs
Richard Alden - Ed Stiles
Marilyn Manning - Judy Bradshaw
Don Russell - Carl Oliver
Helen Hovey - Doris Page
Arch Hall Sr. - Opening Narration / Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Joan Howard - Dead Woman (uncredited)

Music: Paul Sawtell Bert Shefter
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Plot Outline: Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking...
Plot: Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Professional Expertise: count Leopold Sacher-Masoch marquis Donotien Aldonse Fran?ois de Sade Sigmund Freud Luis Bu?uel Max Ernst Bohuslav Brouk

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Charlie has a crippled walk which comes and goes throughout the film.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
The characters of Charlie and Judy were inspired by real-life serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. Although the character of Judy acts like a very young teenager (like the real 14-year-old Fugate), a radio announcer was added to clarify that Judy is 18 years old, in order to sidestep censorship problems.
This is believed to be the first feature film based on real life serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. Mainstream Hollywood would not produce films inspired by the pair until a decade after this one. A number of films were inspired by the duo (some very loosely) and included such major examples as Terrence Malicks Badlands (1973) and Oliver Stones Natural Born Killers (1994)
This low-budget film was noted for its excellent cinematography. It was the first American film for Vilmos Zsigmond who was working under the name William Zsigmond