tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437843617863027843.post5973166243070073955..comments2024-03-21T05:59:27.102-07:00Comments on The Video Deck: Rabid Dogs Release UpdateArrow Videohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834268362162224726noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437843617863027843.post-79865754068385139392014-04-24T14:21:05.833-07:002014-04-24T14:21:05.833-07:00Lamberto should be ashamed of himself. The hatchet...Lamberto should be ashamed of himself. The hatchet job he and Leone did on Rabid Dogs is an insult to his father's work. Although Mario himself never got to finish the film, the version that was completed in the '90s according to his original plan is one of his best films, a remarkable display of directorial control. What Lamberto and Leone did was to trash that in an attempt to make the film conform to a more conventional poliziotteschi formula by "opening it up" and ruining the claustrophobic intensity of Bava's plan to shoot virtually the whole film inside the speeding car. Maybe there's a touch of Oedipal revenge on Lamberto's part given that nothing he has done as a director has come anywhere close to the quality of his father's work.Kenneth George Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10174712879699965085noreply@blogger.com