FRANCO: NIGHT STALKER

At least looks wise this is a casting made in heaven.

"Waitaminute, Vincenzo.  Whaddaya mean it's not about me?"

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Originally Posted by Doc Phibes 

 

 

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the Mexican-American serial killer who terrorized Los Angeles in the mid-80′s, earning himself the ominous moniker “the Night Stalker.” (and Kolchak wept)

 

 

"Waitaminute, Vincenzo.  Whaddaya mean it's not about me?"

Unrelated... I want a Bill Murray Kolchak movie. Just sayin'.

Yes, count me in the 'dammit, I clicked on it hoping to read about the return of Kolchak' camp. Ah well.

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Originally Posted by Sentinel Red 

Yes, count me in the 'dammit, I clicked on it hoping to read about the return of Kolchak' camp. Ah well.

I won't lie. I did that on purpose. I know CHUD's audience. :)

Ramirez is the fucking personification of evil, but this could be a fascinating film. That stuff about his psycho Nam vet uncle with his photo collection is beyond fucked. I have a bunch of friends who grew up in LA while the Night Stalker was scaring the shit out of everyone, and their descriptions make it sound like they were stuck in the nightmare landscape of a 1980s Cannon thriller. Only with no Charlie Bronson there to blow the bad guy away at the end.

I hope Franco gets the teeth right.

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Originally Posted by Disciple_72 

Ramirez is the fucking personification of evil, but this could be a fascinating film. That stuff about his psycho Nam vet uncle with his photo collection is beyond fucked. I have a bunch of friends who grew up in LA while the Night Stalker was scaring the shit out of everyone, and their descriptions make it sound like they were stuck in the nightmare landscape of a 1980s Cannon thriller. Only with no Charlie Bronson there to blow the bad guy away at the end.

 

I hope Franco gets the teeth right.

What's really scary is that his rampage was relatively short, but he killed/hurt a lot of people in that time. BTK was loose for almost 40 years, but only got (that we know of) 10 people, and he went long stretches of time not killing anyone.

I did like how he was captured though. Police run his finger-prints, his face gets on the news and then regular people just beat the shit out of him when they saw him.

 

How the fuck Chris Cornell got involved in this is my question.

Either way, let it never be said Franco likes to rest on his laurels.

Yeah, Franco's going to go the transformation route on this one. The disgusting teeth and putrid breath, ratty, smelly, hair and dirty homeless look. Just look up the Wikipedia on Ramirez, and it's pretty repugnant.

Pretty brave of Franco jumping into something like this.

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Originally Posted by Cameron Hughes 
I did like how he was captured though.

Yeah, I first heard about the Night Stalker case from a TV movie years ago, loved the part when they finally caught him. Angry mobs rule!
 

I have so many third and fourth hand connections to this case (born in the area the year it happened, family on the police force tracking him, family on the block they caught him, a friend who dissected his kidney- no shit) it's almost scary. I might usually be looking forward to this, if Franco didn't annoy the piss out of me. But if it gets his grubby, pretentious hands off of Blood Meridian and As I Lay Dying, maybe it's for the best.

Anyway, no kickback about him donning brownface* for this? I don't really care considering 1. hiring a white actor to play a Mexican American piece of shit serial killer isn't really the same as getting one to play Caesar Chavez or anything 2. he does admittedly kind of look like Ramirez and 3. It'll add another performance to the pantheon of white dudes in brownface, which is endlessly fascinating.

*Even if he doesn't literally put on brown face paint, if you've ever heard Ramirez talk you know he has a pretty heavy Tex-Mex accent, so he's gonna have to play to the ethnicity no matter what.

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Originally Posted by Rene (Mr.Eko) 

Yeah, Franco's going to go the transformation route on this one. The disgusting teeth and putrid breath, ratty, smelly, hair and dirty homeless look. Just look up the Wikipedia on Ramirez, and it's pretty repugnant.

 

Pretty brave of Franco jumping into something like this.

 I pity whomever Franco is dating while this films. 

Fascinating idea.  Although I too was hoping for something Kolchak related.