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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 |
If it weren't for the Sony Walkman that Joseph Bottoms listens to in order to miraculously visualize computer-graphic/inferred grid-like outlines after having lost his sight, offbeat director Nico Mastorakis's BLIND DATE would seem from the steely neo-noir 1970's instead of the more glossy and subdued 1980's...
As that decade brings a wall-to-wall score of loud synthesizers and bad techno pop songs in what's an otherwise intriguing Greek-set giallo that builds beyond an uninspired initial 30-minutes... picking up when blinded Joseph Bottoms becomes a James Stewart/REAR WINDOW-style protagonist, only with moveable investigatory skills like VERTIGO... stalking the dark night for ex-girlfriend (and possible final victim) Lana Clarkson...
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| Lana Clarkson and Kirstie Alley artwork in BLIND DATE |
The search for lost love leading to the discovery of a neck-slitting serial killer, sporadically experienced in a violently-sadistic horror movie fashion alongside edgier moments including a suspenseful walk outside a neon high-rise...
Meanwhile, the peripheral characters include Kirstie Alley as the faithful love-interest and Keir Dullea as a doctor/surgeon, spouting just-enough technical jargon to make this obscure cult film work more as a modernized Hitchcock-esque thriller than the attempted Michael Crichton-inspired science-fiction.
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Keir Dullea and Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Keir Dullea in BLIND DATE |
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| Keir Dullea in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Marina Sirtis in BLIND DATE |
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| Kirstie Alley in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Kirstie Alley in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Kathy Hill in BLIND DATE |
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| James Daughton in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| From BLIND DATE |
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| James Daughton in BLIND DATE |
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| James Daughton in BLIND DATE with Lana Clarkson |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Marina Sirtis in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE with Kirstie Alley |
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| Keir Dullea in BLIND DATE |
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| Keir Dullea in BLIND DATE (seen by Joseph Bottoms) |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Spyros Papafrantzis in BLIND DATE |
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| Noelle Simpson in BLIND DATE |
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| Noelle Simpson in BLIND DATE with Spyros Papafrantzis |
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| Kathy Hill in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Valerie Golino in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| From BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Kathy Hill in BLIND DATE |
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| Kathy Hill in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Joseph Bottoms in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| James Daughton and Lana Clarkson in BLIND DATE |
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| James Daughton in BLIND DATE |
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| From BLIND DATE |
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