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Comin' at Ya!

  • 19811981
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  • 1h 31m
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5.2/10
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Comin' at Ya! (1981)
A tale of a vengeful gunslinger determined to rescue his kidnapped wife from a gang of ruthless bandits.
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  • Western

Tragedy strikes as two ruthless brothers kidnap a bride during her wedding. Hurt and angry, H.H. begins his quest to find the love he lost, and take vengeance upon the wicked. Comin' at Ya.Tragedy strikes as two ruthless brothers kidnap a bride during her wedding. Hurt and angry, H.H. begins his quest to find the love he lost, and take vengeance upon the wicked. Comin' at Ya.Tragedy strikes as two ruthless brothers kidnap a bride during her wedding. Hurt and angry, H.H. begins his quest to find the love he lost, and take vengeance upon the wicked. Comin' at Ya.

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  • Director
    • Ferdinando Baldi
  • Writers
    • Wolfe Lowenthal
    • Lloyd Battista
    • Gene Quintano
  • Stars
    • Tony Anthony
    • Gene Quintano
    • Victoria Abril
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  • Director
    • Ferdinando Baldi
  • Writers
    • Wolfe Lowenthal
    • Lloyd Battista
    • Gene Quintano
  • Stars
    • Tony Anthony
    • Gene Quintano
    • Victoria Abril
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    • 25User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
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    Tony Anthony
    Tony Anthony
    • H.H. Hartas H.H. Hart
    Gene Quintano
    Gene Quintano
    • Pike Thompsonas Pike Thompson
    Victoria Abril
    Victoria Abril
    • Abileneas Abilene
    Ricardo Palacios
    Ricardo Palacios
    • Polk Thompsonas Polk Thompson
    Lewis Gordon
    • The Preacheras The Preacher
    Rafael Albaicín
    • Auction Bidderas Auction Bidder
    • (uncredited)
    Luis Barboo
    Luis Barboo
    • Thompson Henchmanas Thompson Henchman
    • (uncredited)
    Charly Bravo
    • Thompson Henchmanas Thompson Henchman
    • (uncredited)
    Domenico Cianfriglia
    • Thompson Henchmanas Thompson Henchman
    • (uncredited)
    Joaquín Gómez
    Joaquín Gómez
    • Thompson Henchmanas Thompson Henchman
    • (uncredited)
    Goffredo Unger
    Goffredo Unger
    • Thompson Henchmanas Thompson Henchman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Ferdinando Baldi
    • Writers
      • Wolfe Lowenthal
      • Lloyd Battista
      • Gene Quintano
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    Tragedy strikes as two ruthless brothers kidnap a bride during her wedding. Hurt and angry, H.H. begins his quest to find the love he lost, and take vengeance upon the wicked. Comin' at Ya.
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      • 3-D! It's Back! It's Bigger! It's Better! And it's... Comin' At Ya!
    • Genre
      • Western
    • Certificate
      • R
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The movie's "Comin At Ya!" title has nothing to do with the film's story and relates purely to the 3D gimmick of the picture.
    • Crazy credits
      In the opening scene, the credits are painted on items within the set, including the bottom of a horse's hoof.
    • Alternate versions
      For its DVD release, the film elements were digitally transferred for restoration work. The digital transfer was also subjected to some CGI alterations. The most prominent of these was the changing of some shots to black and white with elements within the shot in color.
    • Connections
      Featured in Vintage Video: Comin' at Ya! (1981) (2022)

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    Top review
    A Fistful Of "Wo-o-o-o-oa-hhhhhhhhh"
    By 1981, the heyday of the Spaghetti Western was over..that golden era finished..played out...& pretty much left for dead. A few interesting stragglers trickled out..."Mannaja" in '77..Lucio Fulci delivered "Silver Saddle" in '78.. & Michele Lupo's "Buddy Goes West" in '81. The previously bustling sets in Almeria & other Spanish locations were abandoned...& allowed to fall into disrepair. Director Ferdinando Baldi & Producer/Actor Tony Anthony, who ten years earlier had collaborated on adapting & bringing the blind swordsman "Zatoichi" to the Spaghetti West..resulting in the entertaining ........"Blindman",.............decided to do it again.......... filming a loose remake of Blindman in Spain.

    Producer Tony Anthony decided to film it in 3-D...to give it life... to make it stand out...& that's precisely what it did. Originally called YENDO HACIA TI (GOING TOWARDS YOU) ,... Filmways picked up the film for North American distribution, re-named it COMIN' AT YA! ...it wound up making a bundle at the box office...grossing $12,000,000 in the USA...becoming the 23rd highest grossing Western ever among all post 1980-present Westerns... & sparking a modest 3D revival.

    Anthony stars as H.H. Hart...who's not given any backstory but I'd project him as a former gunslinger. His wife, Abilene, is played by the gorgeous Victoria (TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN!) Abril. Gene (TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS) Quintano plays the sleazy leader of the bad guys, Pike...unfortunately he plays it badly, in a terrible performance.. Quintano also had a hand in the script. Pike's fat, disgusting brother, Polk, is played by Ricardo (ARK OF THE SUN GOD) Palacios.

    After an opening credits sequence in which beans spill all over the camera, bullets fire at the audience, a snake slithers out of a basket.., and hands reach out for the viewer's face... this recycled, slightly fiddled & diddled with clone of "Blindman"....... ....gets going as Hart embarks on a rescue mission after his wife is kidnapped, he lies shot & left for dead......the priest shot & killed... by the Thompson brothers (Gene Quintano, Ricardo Palacios)...in the little border chapel...as they exchange their vows...anticipating and influencing the chapel massacre in "Kill Bill".

    We discover that the Thompsons & their gang have been kidnapping women all over the territory in order to sell them to Mexican brothels... taking them all down to Mexico to be sold to the highest bidder. Hart follows, carrying a pump shotgun , blasting his way through the bad guys, getting beaten up several times (an Anthony trademark...he always gets pummeled a lot). After capturing one of the brothers and giving him a beating. ..he then tracks down the other brother/rest of the gang, hoping to release the captive women...& save his wife. Release...escape..recapture..& murder ensue.

    As Hart continues on his quest, we're treated to guys falling downstairs (in slooooow motion), spinning fiery pinwheels (for the five minute recap at the end), an attack of bats, spiders, scurrying (and hungry) rats, flaming arrows (the best part...& the 3D works), and even a baby's bare bottom.

    As the gang kills time in a windswept ghost town waiting for Hart to show up ...it's an excuse for more gimmicks....yo-yos...paddleballs... playing cards flipped at you....as Hart, despite being greatly outnumbered... rides into town to save his wife....& exact his revenge. The explosive finale works well in 3D...or maybe I was just sufficiently cross eyed by that time.

    The old, abandoned, crumbling, delapidated sets work well.......conveying an air of desolation & desperation.

    Carlo Savina scored a lot of Spaghetti Westerns...all low budget "B" stuff. Here he contributes a spare, elegiac score......using ambient voices pleasingly. His best moments are during a 5 minute replay of its best 3D moments after the movie.....which I'm guessing was probably the original opening credits title tune.

    I've always liked Anthony...although he never achieved the status of a Nero, Eastwood or a Garko ... he always gave a good performance...was one of the most likable SW "heroes"..as well as being a talented writer & producer.....& Baldi...never accorded the reverence of a Leone, a Corbucci.. always delivered the goods.......never afraid to take chances.

    When presented in the theater...........viewers used polarized (gray lenses) to gain the 3-D experience. The DVD utilizes Anaglyph 3-D, centering around the wearing of glasses with red and blue lenses...to effect the illusion of depth. It's best to view the movie in a fully darkened room with the red lens over the right eye...as it appears to be Reverse Anaglyph. The close, foreground shots don't work too well...........the foreground objects that are supposed to loom out at you are always breaking up & tend to produce a "ghosting" effect, which ruins the overall illusion. ..The 3-D actually works best............producing pretty good depth effects, in the regular shots...the medium & background shots.

    Could it stand on its own...w/out the 3d...something to be watched & watched again? No. The story...pretty much paint by numbers, point a--> point b--> point c.............doesn't warrant repeated viewings. That being said...I'll watch it again........not for the story..but for the 3D.

    In 1983...Baldi & Anthony collaborated on another 3D movie.."Treasure of the Four Crowns "....which marked the final on-screen performance by Tony Anthony, though he continued working for a time as a television producer. From his experience working on the 3D film techniques for this movie, Tony Anthony now manufactures specialized lenses for the medical industry.

    Grab some buttered popcorn......a Giant Coca-Cola...an x-large box of Junior Mints...& check it out.
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    • May 11, 2006

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    • Release date
      • July 24, 1981 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Italy
      • Spain
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • H.H. Heart and the Cajun Queen
    • Filming locations
      • Desierto de Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain
    • Production company
      • Lupo-Anthony-Quintano Productions
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $12,000,000
    • Gross worldwide
      • $12,000,000
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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