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The debut feature of future Academy Award-nominee Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show 1971), Targets is a searing and shocking collision between old and new worlds of horror. The film stars the legendary Boris Karloff as Byron Orlock, an aging movie star who has decided to make one final promotional appearance before returning to England. His path gradually intersects with that of a seemingly clean-cut young man engaged in a vicious killing spree across Los Angeles.

Karloff boarded the project on loan from Roger Corman, to whom he still owed two days of contracted work. Corman had befriended the young Bogdanovich, then a film critic and aspiring filmmaker, and offered him Karloff's services for his first major venture behind the camera — as long as he also worked in footage from Corman's earlier Karloff-starring The Terror 1963. The result is a riveting, still shocking exploration of what truly scares society.

M | Medium level violence