May 28, 2023
Whiskey Mountain (1977)
"You know, for two days we tried to scare you all off. Y'all just kept comin' and comin'. You just wouldn't stop."
"Just call them plain stupid, Mr. Rudy."
"They're dumb, not stupid. Dumb! You jeopardised our whole operation, you dumb idiots."
#whiskey mountain#william grefé#1977#american cinema#nicholas e. spanos#christopher george#preston pierce#roberta collins#linda borgeson#john davis chandler#robert leslie#jerry rhodes#william kerwin#brad bond#j.g. patterson jr.#elijah perry#edward ramey#frank rickman#charlie daniels#ending my deep dive into bill Grefé's filmography for the foreseeable future whilst i nurse the brain ruptures his work has given me#expected this film (one that actually saw a decent cinema release and had recognisable if b list stars) to be one of his more accessible#and also to have been better preserved that some of the others; it isn't and it looks like shit. somehow Bill seemed to be losing his#filmmaking ability as his career progressed: sure Sting of Death was BAD but it was also campy and fun and original#this is just a sullen treasure hunt movie meets backwoods slasher with way way too much time taken up on filming dirt bike racing#not even the usually dependable Christopher George can save this from being fairly tedious and unpleasant but special mention to#Grefé mainstay JD Chandler who's the only actor who seems to actually be having fun here and delivers one of his most interesting#performances for the Florida Man of bad cinema. oh and the Charlie Daniels theme song is naturally a banger
