Un chef du crime d'une petite ville accepte la livraison d'une voiture volée, seulement pour découvrir qu'il y a un bébé sur la banquette arrière.Un chef du crime d'une petite ville accepte la livraison d'une voiture volée, seulement pour découvrir qu'il y a un bébé sur la banquette arrière.Un chef du crime d'une petite ville accepte la livraison d'une voiture volée, seulement pour découvrir qu'il y a un bébé sur la banquette arrière.
Michael Boston
- Sonny Boy
- (as Michael Griffin)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesIn an interview director Robert Martin Carroll explained that there were three moral lessons behind the film. First, "someone doesn't deserve your love just because they say they love you." Second, "if there is good in a person it will eventually come out." Third, "once you've messed up, unlike most movies, there is no real happy ending. You'll always be a bit off."
- Versions alternativesThe UK Entertainment in Video VHS runs 6 minutes longer than the U.S. VHS from Media/CBS FOX.
- ConnexionsFeatured in TCM Underground: Sonny Boy (1989) (2009)
- Bandes originalesMaybe It Ain't
Written and Performed by David Carradine
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Tongueless in the desert
Terminally weird indie film with Paul L. Smith playing Slue, a small town crime boss. David Carradine plays his transvestite (I think) squeeze, Pearl, while Brad Dourif and Sydney Lassick are his two henchmen, Weasel and Charlie P. Weasel kills a couple and steals their car, which he brings to Slue. He didn't realize, however, that the couple's baby was asleep in the back. Slue wants to feed the kid to the hogs, but Pearl sees him as the son he could never have. They raise him as a killer to be used against Slue's enemies. They also cut out his tongue as a birthday present?! When Sonny Boy gets loose, his actions threaten to turn the town against Slue.
I had wanted to see this one after reading about it in "Terror on Tape", and TCM gave me the chance when they aired it as part of their Underground lineup. As you can plainly see from the plot description, it's certainly offbeat. Sort of an allegory in disguise for the effects of child abuse, you might expect this to be a disturbing film. Not even close. Instead, it's just strange. Slue has an old canon, and in a wicked scene, he uses it to blow apart a nosy deputy. There are also some obvious parallels to Frankenstein towards the end. Had I not known it beforehand, I would have been shocked to see that this was released in '89. It felt like something straight out of the 70's. The main giveaway was the computer font which tells how much time had passed.
While I would hesitate to call "Sonny Boy" a good film, it's worth a look if only to say that you've seen it. For fans of bizarre cinema, there's enough of a novelty present to warrant at least one viewing. Personally, I'm still not 100% sure if Carradine was supposed to be playing a guy in drag or an actual woman.
I had wanted to see this one after reading about it in "Terror on Tape", and TCM gave me the chance when they aired it as part of their Underground lineup. As you can plainly see from the plot description, it's certainly offbeat. Sort of an allegory in disguise for the effects of child abuse, you might expect this to be a disturbing film. Not even close. Instead, it's just strange. Slue has an old canon, and in a wicked scene, he uses it to blow apart a nosy deputy. There are also some obvious parallels to Frankenstein towards the end. Had I not known it beforehand, I would have been shocked to see that this was released in '89. It felt like something straight out of the 70's. The main giveaway was the computer font which tells how much time had passed.
While I would hesitate to call "Sonny Boy" a good film, it's worth a look if only to say that you've seen it. For fans of bizarre cinema, there's enough of a novelty present to warrant at least one viewing. Personally, I'm still not 100% sure if Carradine was supposed to be playing a guy in drag or an actual woman.
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- Cujo108
- 5 août 2010
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Satanic - Ausgeburt der Hölle
- Lieux de tournage
- Sociétés de production
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- Durée1 heure 36 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1
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