Un par de exterminadores/sicarios matan al dueño de una empresa de alarmas antirrobo y acechan al socio que los contrató, a su mujer y a un empollón inculpado por el asesinato, que cuenta la... Leer todoUn par de exterminadores/sicarios matan al dueño de una empresa de alarmas antirrobo y acechan al socio que los contrató, a su mujer y a un empollón inculpado por el asesinato, que cuenta la historia en flashback desde la silla eléctrica.Un par de exterminadores/sicarios matan al dueño de una empresa de alarmas antirrobo y acechan al socio que los contrató, a su mujer y a un empollón inculpado por el asesinato, que cuenta la historia en flashback desde la silla eléctrica.
- Dirección
- Guión
- Reparto principal
- Cheap Dish
- (as Carrie Hall-Schalter)
Reseñas destacadas
Bruce was supposed to have the lead role, but the movie would have had a very different feel and maybe less enjoyable. His scenes in a supporting role are a blast, but I would actually have liked to see him as the main baddie. That would have added some more oomph and brought in flavor from the more wacky parts of Evil Dead.
The plot is, who cares, they didn't. Watch for the silly violence, some enjoyable cinematography (the hallway of doors scene was like ASMR for the eyeballs), and some solid one-liners.
It did take me a bit to warm up to this film as I went into it not knowing anything about it, but once I accepted that it wasn't going for any one genre, and just being ridiculous wacky fun, I settled in and enjoyed the ride. It is also a pleasure to watch Chuck Norris's TV wife adding some gravitas when Bruce was absent.
The colors and settings are vivid, like a cartoon. And, the characters are just as unpredictable and indestructible as they would be in your typical cartoon: getting hit in the head with a row of bowling balls, only to be just dazed and not dead; falling out of tall building windows, only to get up and continue on with the action of the sequence; falling down a chute and into a box to be sent off to South America, etc.
After the unexpected success of "Evil Dead" in 1982-'83, Embassy Pictures, which had released "Escape From New York," among others, contacted the young Sam Raimi about possibly directing a comedy written by two up-and-comers named Joel and Ethan Coen. Raimi read the riotous script and was eager to put it on film, keeping in close contact with the Coens so he could capture the zany spirit of the script intact. Operating on an extremely tight budget, and with constant interference from the studio, "The XYZ Murders" (the film's original title) was finished sometime in 1984 -- and promptly shelved. Never liking or understanding the humor of the movie, the executives at Embassy (being pressured to find a hit because the studio was floundering) told Raimi, "No, this is another one of your CULT movies, we don't WANT that." (These are not, by the way, my words; this is all from an interview in "Fangoria" Sam Raimi did in 1985 or '86. **EDIT 2018: the interview is in issue #64, 1987, page 33**) So, the studio, trying to keep afloat, re-edited the final cut of the movie, releasing it as "Crimewave." It did not, of course, work, as Embassy Pictures went bankrupt that same year, but not because of this film -- Embassy was finished long before they released this, actually.
If there was some way Raimi and the Coens could, I wish they would go back to this movie and either remake it or re-release it in its intended form. "Crimewave" was good, but you could tell it had been butchered (which gave it its uneven tone). In the "Fangoria" interview, Raimi confessed he regretted the way "The XYZ Murders" turned out -- so why not re-do it now that he can probably do anything he wants (thanks to the "Spider-Man" series)?
What a shame that a struggling movie studio took a great, unique, funny movie and turned it into a curiosity. I'm sure, as we all know, THAT never happens anymore.
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesBruce Campbell commented that the film "wasn't released, it escaped".
- PifiasWhile the majority of the exterior shots were filmed in Detroit, towards the beginning of the film, the night time distant shot of the city (in red glow) right before the storm hits, is clearly Chicago, as the Sears Tower is quite prominent in the shot.
- Citas
Renaldo the Heel: I've never seen you here before. I like that in a woman.
- Créditos adicionalesAfter the credits, we see the box (with Mrs. Trend inside) in Uruguay.
- Versiones alternativasThe region 2 DVD version is missing some seconds of Arthur's death scene. Vic no longer warns him of an impending over-pass, and Arthur's speech before he dies is cut completely.
- ConexionesFeatured in Ghost Cars at the Winchester Mystery House (1995)
- Banda sonoraRialto
Written by Joseph LoDuca (as Joe LoDuca)
Selecciones populares
- How long is Crimewave?Con tecnología de Alexa
Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- Títulos en diferentes países
- Ola de crímenes, ola de risas
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Empresas productoras
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- 3.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 5101 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 3571 US$
- 27 abr 1986
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 5101 US$