Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ISABEL. French Canadian Actress Genevieve Bujold and her writer-director husband Paul Almond click with their first professional collaboration, creating a shocker that manages to be simultaneously heartwarming and spine-chilling...
French Canadian Actress Geneviève Bujold is a charmer. Her husband and countryman, Writer-Director Paul Almond, is a cinemagician. Working together professionally for the first time in Isabel, they have created an eye-spinning shocker that massages the heart while icing down the spine...
...Night at the Movies. And when we sit in the half-light of these theatres, distracted by candy-laden children in action in too many aisles, wondering what evil lurks in the hearts of men who throw a sign saying ARS GRATIA ARTIS in front of a motorpsycho surfing shocker, we can grasp something of the apathy and despair that has permeated every aspect of Hollywood film production...
Laborites had expected at least small losses in Britain's local elections, chiefly because of the sluggish economy and austerity at home, but they experienced a shocker. From one end of Britain to the other, voters toppled Labor from control of town halls...
...intellectual shocker its creators no doubt intended, Planet of the Apes is a joke. But the joke is funny enough often enough to sustain the picture through a series of embarrassing lapses in logic, some third-rate color photography, and sets worthy of the more outlandish oriental monster movies. Viewed with tolerance, and press passes, Planet of the Apes can be appreciated alternately as low comedy, high adventure and, at moments, serious science fiction. In other words...