{"id":1032,"date":"2018-03-30T03:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T03:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2018-03-30T03:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T03:16:59","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-strange-shadows-in-an-empty-room-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;Strange Shadows in an Empty Room&#8221; (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"__DdeLink__6_5846224411111111111111111\"><\/a><a name=\"__DdeLink__94_12075167691111\"><\/a> I\u2019ve got an incredibly soft spot for this raunchy actioner cuz it was filmed on the skuzzy streets of late-70\u2019s Montreal &amp; every urban exterior reminds me of aimlessly booting around downtown as a teen! And the fact that many of the locales get pummelled by legendary <em>R\u00e9my (James Bond) Julienne\u2019s<\/em> stuntmen is just icing on the cake! When a deliberately unlikeable gruff cop\u2019s free-spirited sis gets croaked at a chichi party, he swaps protocol for <em>Dirty Harry<\/em>esque emotional outbursts trying to solve the convoluted whodunit! Robbery &amp; murder complicate his quest when witnesses start getting picked off one-by-one! This mix of Italian giallo, poliziotto &amp; stodgy US cop thriller hilariously unleashes one bum steer after another as blatant excuse to foist gratuitous thrills &amp; set pieces in our faces! Mission accomplished! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2009 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cWildest Montreal Car Chase Scene Ever Shot!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/strange_shadows_in_an_empty_room.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1033 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/strange_shadows_in_an_empty_room-664x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"967\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/strange_shadows_in_an_empty_room-664x1024.jpg 664w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/strange_shadows_in_an_empty_room-195x300.jpg 195w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/strange_shadows_in_an_empty_room-768x1184.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/strange_shadows_in_an_empty_room.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two from FAB Press still available. For original art &amp; book purchasing info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve got an incredibly soft spot for this raunchy actioner cuz it was filmed on the skuzzy streets of late-70\u2019s Montreal &amp; every urban exterior reminds me of aimlessly booting around downtown as a teen! And the fact that many of the locales get pummelled by legendary R\u00e9my (James Bond) Julienne\u2019s stuntmen is just icing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}