The Sadist is a 1963 black and white exploitation film written and directed by James Landis, based on real life serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate. Three teachers driving into Los Angeles for a ball game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend. This critically acclaimed but little known film plays out in real time and is loosely based on 50's thrill killer Charles Starkweather, with cult actor/singer Arch Hall, Jr. (Eegah, Wild Guitar, The Choppers) in the title role and (Hall's Eegah! co-star) Marilyn Manning as his girlfriend. Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond (Deliverance, The Deer Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) in his first American film. Published on Google video as a Public Domain movie. Wikipedia
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