Connors! The group met the reknowned one-armed scientist, the world"s foremost authority on herpetology (reptiles), who was seeking a radical solution Connors! The group met the reknowned one-armed scientist, the world"s foremost authority on herpetology (reptiles), who was seeking a radical solution to create a "world without weakness" hrough Cross Species Genetics (or regeneration).At Mickey"s closed-down and darkened gym, he happened to meet up with Apollo Creed (sent by Adrian from his house to find him there), who proposed a "business" proposition - to help train him for a rematch against Lang, with a different style of training.Alex overturns the writer"s desk, typewriter, and bookshelves.Mr.Alexander is forced to helplessly watch the ugly disrobing and choreographed rape of his own wife.A grown-up "child," Alex begins by first attacking her breasts - he first snips off two circles of jumpsuit cloth around them to expose them...then he"s still there."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The film was filled with horror-film cliches, such as spooky music (screeching violins similar toPsycho"s and Bernard Hermann"s soundtrack), false alarms, crazed characters, red herrings, dead phone lines, sex before death, cat-and-mouse style killings, premonitions of terror, subjective ("point-of-view") camera work stalkings, a terrific rainstorm, the concluding boo-moment (similar toCarrie (1976)), a Friday the 13th full-moon, etc.Directed by Irving Rapper, its screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the 1941 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty (who also wroteStella Dallas).Detail
