I had a small interest for awhile in seeing movies with Chris George and his wife Linda George, don’t ask me why! Maybe it’s because he’s been in so much garbage( I mean classics!) that I was intrigued to see a husband and wife slum act. Anybody who can go from “Pieces” “Gates Of Hell” to “Fantasy Island” and then “Enter the Ninja” is awesome in my book. That’s why I was so confused that “The Exterminator” sucked so bad!
I blame Robert Ginty, I mean Charles Bronson would’ve brought this home where it really needed to be. Ginty just sucks as anything other than a Blagojevich stunt double. The Exterminator starts off OK. Like any other Nam-ploitation flick. They built a cool fake body with a moveable head when a guy’s throat gets slashed, that looked pretty good(I couldn’t see most of it because the lighting was really shitty).Steve James bails out Ginty in Nam and then dies in a hospital, when they get back to New York, to return the favor he hunts down Irwin Keyes and his buddies(who might be the flimsiest gang, if you can even call them that!) The gang in “Return to Witch Mountain” were more sinister. I was expecting a son of a bitch creep with no mercy(a one man army) to exact the revenge. Instead I get a softie who mumbles, with a Lego man haircut! I was pissed! Ginty dons a stupid motorcycle helmet for 2 seconds(that’s why there’s a guy like that on the movie poster/model shoot) but he basically fumbles his way around with a flame thrower and bumbles lines that I had to turn the TV waay up to hear! and these are not Dirty Harry cool-ass dialogue it’s not even memorable,they blew all the best script parts on over creative padding.
Chris George went without his true love Linda this around to shack up with Samantha Eggar and they really try and sell their relationship(Urrgghh). Kill me now! Ginty hangs a mafia guy over a meat grinder(which sounds cool but they blew a great idea like that too). He assumes the Travis Bickle role at one point in the film when two guys abuse this hooker. They went over the line in selling that for some strange reason. The dude from “Franken Hooker pops up too and dunks a curling iron in a Vaseline jar(just weird and uncalled for).I think the director thought everyone would copy this cool try next year or something I dunno? The Exterminator keeps trucking along and I was just annoyed by him and I guess I’m supposed to like this character. I forget to mention another strange thing that happened for no reason other than scene padding. Chris George hooks a hotdog up to 2 forks and cooks it that way on his desk of all places! Maybe James Glickenhaus’s children wrote some cute creative writing pieces and stuck them on the fridge and he just had to throw them in somewhere? When they raid Gintys apartment they find “The Anarchist’s Cookbook” which is like finding an AC/DC in Richard Ramirez’s house. Maybe I heard this made a ton of money for Cannon so they made a sequel but I didn’t bother to get it (why would I?) I was mad enough that I had to take the subway and walk 10 blocks to return it late (in all fairness that’s not the movie’s fault) but maybe If I liked it wouldn’t have bothered me as much.
click only if you're dying to see the making of doc. for EX 2
A well made fan vid
A techno version of the EX 2 theme
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