Evil shadows
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Evil shadows |
| Original title | Love, Cheat & Steal |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | William Curran |
| script | William Curran |
| production | Brad Krevoy , Steven Stabler |
| music | Pray for Rain |
| camera | Kent L. Wakeford |
| cut | Carole Kravetz |
| occupation | |
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Evil Shadows (alternate title: Eiskaltigelegt , Blood Rage , The Avenger - Thirst for Vengeance ; Original title: Love, Cheat & Steal ) is an American thriller by William Curran from 1993 .
action
Lauren hands her husband Reno Adams, who is committing a crime, over to the police. Adams is sentenced to prison. Lauren later marries Paul Harrington, who knows nothing about her past.
Adams escapes from prison after seven years, with another inmate accompanying him. Adams wants revenge on Lauren. He visits Lauren and is introduced to her husband as her brother. He then forces Lauren to help him and his accomplice rob the bank that Paul Harrington runs. The stolen cash belongs to a man involved in illegal business. Adams kills his accomplice, whom he met in prison.
It turns out that Harrington saw through the game. In the end, he, a police officer and Lauren share the stolen money. Adams arrested by the corrupt police officer goes back to prison.
Reviews
Rotten Tomatoes wrote that the ending was "very surprising".
Christopher Null wrote on filmcritic.com that the film was "predominantly crap".
The magazine TV Spielfilm wrote that the "well thought-out thriller" entertained "with subtle tension". He relies "on his excellent leading actors", especially John Lithgow and Eric Roberts.
René Classen wrote in the lexicon of international films : “'Bad Shadows' is not a coherent crime film, but a half-baked mixture of typical ingredients of the genre: the further the story advances, the more points of friction become. The final sequence stands in stark contrast to the rest of the plot; the surprise effect is just as useful in itself as numerous unmotivated sex and violence scenes. "
background
The film was produced as a television film and first broadcast in the United States on December 5, 1993 on Showtime . It was shown in cinemas in the Netherlands in June 1994.
Web links
- Evil shadow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Evil shadow at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b uk.rottentomatoes.com ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 20, 2007
- ↑ filmcritic.com ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 20, 2007
- ↑ tvspielfilm.de accessed on August 20, 2007
- ↑ Evil Shadows. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Premiere dates for Love, Cheat & Steal. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
