Hello yes Looker is one of my favorite movies. Susan Day was great and I love the theme song (also Kim Carne's) sing the same song. Last the Porsche look beautiful. Thanks for the video and the trivia.
This movie had a great satirical edge especially in the naming of the fake products that were being sold. There was even some comedy at the end when one of the villain's henchmen is being killed. Crichton did a good job poking fun at the average company and consumer.
Yes! Love this flick and, like you, was around the same age when this was being shown on HBO. I watched it for the obvious reasons but I also thought the gun was cool. As time went on I began to realize this is not only a great movie but way ahead of its time in a lot of ways. This thriller is a gift that keeps on giving.
Great review! Michael Creighton wrotecand directed the very important "Westworld" previously. The looker pistol actually caused the target to experience "lost time", allowing the bad guys to look for evidence and set up traps until some physical stimulus woke up the target. So that car chase and fight scenes we saw had some good moments of people waking up after being punched through a glass wall, or crashing a car into a city water feature. The murders of the models were also done using this to make the deaths look accidental. The looker used a pattern of light impulses to put people in pause, plus that technology would be used in the TV commercials to influence votes and whatever other evil deeds.
Yes. Again, an update should be made because the public is way behind on what tech can do now. Just this Internet of Things and accessing the human hive mind and how they are going to get so good at programming us with augmented reality we will literally have to split into two species just to protect anything natural from techno takeover.
I remember this movie. My older brother took me to see it on halloween, which is my birthday. A perfect movie for a 13 year old to go see on his birthday
I just happened to catch this on Tubi a couple weeks ago. The plot and CGI effects were years ahead. Barry De Vorzon did the awesome score for The Warriors by the way.
I love Looker. I always thought it was a masterpiece. Michael Crichton also directed Coma in 1978, which in my opinion was an outstanding movie of this genre. He also wrote (but didn't direct) Andromeda Strain, which I also very much enjoyed. In this COVID and post-COVID world, Andromeda Strain seems very relevant.
The funny thing is about this soundtrack is that Kim Carnes who did Betty Davis eyes got the rights to record the theme song from this movie and it’s amazing that this movie theme song wasn’t a bigger hit after Kim Carnes version was done, but the band from Norway who did the original Soundtrack this is one of their biggest hits and they’ve gone around the world singing this in concert all over but they’re basically only known in the country of Norway
You know, I just learned of Kim's version when researching this movie for my review. Then I listened to it repeated. I prefer the movie version, but still like hers too.
Michael Crichton directed West world in 1973. He said it was a prototype for Jurassic Park so he reworked the script and changed a theme park with robots to one with dinosaurs.
I remember seeing this movie on TV some Friday night in 1983 or 1984 when I was in seventh or eighth grade. It reminded me of the movie Coma, and I remember thinking it was really good. Michael Crichton wrote and directed it; it has the likes of Albert Finney and James Coburn acting in it...but I haven't seen it since initially viewing it. I can't believe it's not a more popular movie. I don't think it even has much of a cult following. It's very strange how you sometimes get these pretty good movies with well-known directors and actors, interesting concepts and groundbreaking effects (in this case CGI and three-dimensional shading with a computer), but nobody has even seen it or knows anything about it.
It's funny, I was obsessed with Michael Crichton in the 90s and early 00s, consuming as much of his work as I could find, yet I've never heard of this movie. Absolutely want to track this down after watching your assessment.
Haven't watched it in a really long time - was on in the afternoons on HBO back in the mid 80's ALL THE TIME, so I watched it after school a lot. (yes...I wrote this comment before I heard you say almost the same thing)
Great review! I can't stress it enough, I love it when you cover this era; no matter the genre. I also really appreciate your pointing out seeing familiar faces (so frequently) in older movies, specifically the character actors around that time. I've been watching tons of old tv shows (and random films) from '69 to '83 specifically, and I love calling out their names just as a pop quiz! It's actually tons of fun watching the intro's to Quinn Martin crime-dramas and realizing that you may very well know EACH one of the guest stars. Btw, Crichton seems to really have a thing for TV actors. Michael Crichton's movies have a specific style/tone, just like DePalma has his own style; they're easily recognizable if you went in not knowing who the director is. I think they can have some overlap in their style. I watched this and "Coma" around the same time (12 years ago), and I thought that it reminded me too much of "Coma", and in some ways, it reminds me a lot of "Runaway" too; which was the one of these three that I saw first. I actually just rewatched "Runaway" recently (probably seen it 6 times or so over the years), and I have an even greater appreciation for it, not to mention Tom Selleck, and Cynthia Rhodes (man, was she underappreciated). For the record, I probably like Coma the most, then Runaway, then Looker. Speaking of lookers, Crichton's 4th wife Anne-Marie Martin (AKA Eddie Benton) was quite the looker in '84!
Yeah this one definitely had a DePalma feel to it. I was smiling ear to ear watching this. Brought back so many memories. I could easily cover this era of cinema all day. Thank you.
The one thing that never made sense about "Looker" was the reason WHY they were killing those models. Wouldn't it have been easier to pay them? And if they killed them to continue using their images and not pay them, their family members would certainly file a lawsuit over that. But this is a fun movie and visually, one of the best looking films I've ever seen. The picture quality is outstanding.
I never heard of this movie until I saw you talk about it on one of your live streams it was just okay for me I wanted to like it much more but I'm glad I checked it out
@Drumdumsmoviereviews I love that you did a review on Looker. This remains one of my favorite movies. I also happened to notice the Haddonfield High School Shirt I grew up and still live in South Jersey I Graduated from West Deptford. I really enjoyed this review and i appreciate anything that brings exposure and attention to this movie. The mustache man aka Tim Rossovich played for the Philadelphia eagles and carved out a nice niche role for himself playing henchmen if you remember he played one of the henchmen in another classic Cloak and Dagger
The movie was based on facts of the technology during that time period that was being researched. I remembered a tv show that was similar to Inside Edition that showed the different things. In the movie "Phase Gun" is a device that would hypnotize someone. Back in the early 1980's the defense industry was actually researching a way of temporary slowing down if not pause someone using light pulses. This was to be used as crowd control. Also, look at the card reader scenes. The RFID chips were being developed to put into the badges. The bottom line, the movie took things that were actually being developed and projected it in the future of what it may become. This is similar to the terminator and A.I. The movie is also based on real fact about the television industry at one time accused of using Persistence of Vision for selling ad's. It was the same technique used by the movie theaters putting a single frame of popcorn or soft drink in the middle of the movie somewhere.
I saw Looker on HBO or Cinemax back in 1982 and what I mostly remember is the song and like a light gun. I also remember it had to do with plastic surgery I can't believe I remember something. And yeah that model is perfect why would she get plastic surgery? Anyway a memorable thriller. Good review and cool review Lee!👉😃👈
Thank you! The one thing I remember that always stayed with me from way back then was that opening sequence of her getting plastic surgery. Did not expect that much nudity for a PG movie.
Hi there Lee!👋 I personally think Looker is GREAT!!💙 I can remember before cable really took off, there were these monthly movie services called SelecTV, and OnTV (they were separate companies that came with their own box that you connected to your TV, just like cable I guess, but it was only 1 channel if I remember correctly ~ Most people usually had one or the other), and I remember the movie being played quite frequently back then...Barry DeVorzon has worked on dozens of soundtracks, such as "Xanadu", "The Warriors", "Night of the creeps", "Mr. Mom", and "The Exorcist 3"...He is probably most famous for writing and composing "Nadia's Theme", along with Perry Botkin Jr., which became a Top 10 smash back in 1976, thanks to being used as the beginning music for the soap opera, "The Young and the Restless" ..I'm so happy to hear that you enjoy the song "Looker"... it just missed making the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, and made the "Bubbling Under" Chart at #104 or something like that ..The highly under-rated Kim Carnes recorded the song also for her 1982 album "Voyeur", which is fantastic!! She sounds so hauntingly beautiful and eerie...I sincerely feel that Kim's version should've been released as a single after the original failed to do much on radio, especially after the success that Kim had the previous year with "Bette Davis Eyes"...I'll share the link right here for you to hear Kim's version, which is a well-made music video that comes with some great photos of her and the movie...enjoy! Wishing you and yours a fabulous 4th of July holiday, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📺📼📀📺📼📀 ua-cam.com/video/bskNUojiSBw/v-deo.html
I grew up during the 80's and I must've watched this movie along with a host of other classics on HBO throughout that decade. Definitely a hidden gem that was far ahead of it's time.
The title is correct, I've not seen it, but I am familiar with it. Brad Jones aka The Cinema Snob didn't do a full video of it, but did show it in his long 1981 Year In Review episode, so yeah, that was where I heard of it originally. Got it bookmarked on a site to watch it too, but just not had the time to do so yet. Anyways, thank you, Lee. P.S. I was meaning to say this, but forgot, but funny how now a days, they could in a way market it as From the Author of Jurassic Park. 😉
He also directed the great train robbery starring Sean Connery, and he and Sean Connery. Our friend were best friends, and years later Creighton criticized him for executive, producing rising Sun, the movie which was based on the book, but the movie backed off of what the novel indicated.
Yeah, this has always been one of my favorites. I'm 47 now and I too watched this on HBO growing up and this is my favorite era of cinema. Alot of movies at this time explored the growth and centralization of the tech R&D corporate military industrial complex. Similar movies include: Brainstorm, Tron, Wargames and Runaway. It's like the Matrix was the last actual film that used movie making to imagineer the tech future before the internet took over. I think films before that time were a better blend of human storytelling and marketing a way of life for the public to adopt. Thankfully, these films exist now as prescient cautionary tales, Robo-Cop being another example, that are still the best realized sci-fi scripts to hit the screen. They could remake this today with Instagram models and deep fake tech. Where is the Michael Crichton of today? That's cool that he directed in addition to writing.
Great review!! I felt the same when I saw this as a kid. I have to say at the end of this video I thought I was too high when you started talking like the Micromachines guy.
I’m around the same age as you. I used to watch this on HBO when I was a kid. I didn’t remember that much about the movie though. Just bits and pieces. When I watched it 40 years later, I was amazed at how good it was 👍
Another good recommendation for you Polly! And I’m hearing it’s on Tubi right now. By the way, I could not find Road games on shudder. Are you in Canada?
Oh damn I didn’t even realize this was on Tubi. I just bought it on vudu for 10 bucks. The Blu-ray doesn’t have much in the way of special features so I figured why not.
I saw this on video in the early 80's. I rented it because I was bored and I was very surprised at how good it was. The idea of hiding hypnotic suggestions in advertising is quite a scary one. The film They Live broached the subject, albeit in a different way. The bit of this movie I remember best is when the body is lying on the table and the family are superimposed and the little boy says "Aw gee, not the same thing again, ma?". Had me in stitches. I agree, it's an excellent, underrated film.
I love Looker! Its a remarkably cool film from the '80s. I knew about it from the cover in rental stores, but never quite watched it until the WAC bluray came out. Its a cool flick!
Funny how actors now are fighting for the right that Studios will not use their digital likeness and not pay them. This movie is what I thought of when I heard that the actors were doing this. I agree that the car chase was over the top. They should've rethought that part of the movie.
@@DrumdumsOfficial My favorite James Coburn performance was in Hard Times. He was a shady manager to a street fighter played by Charles Bronson. Good fight scenes, but Coburn was the one who carried the movie with his personality
I've brought this movie up when the AI stuff started, "We're going to see commercials in a different light soon." A couple years, lookers will just be a file on a computer.
Great movie. I remember watching it when I was around 8 years old. Besides the beautiful women, the storyline completely captivated me. As I matured, I realized how ahead of the time this movie was. The sci-fi angle is so captivating as well. Maybe I`m in the minority but I always felt this was a classic and so relevant. Another classic is Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.
Its the concept of looking perfect. Now with social media, we see everyone trying to outpost each other by making their lives look perfect... the constant travel, vacations, foods, cars, outfits, etc... Looker just touched on ones physical looks but social media targets every aspect of ones life. The movie was truly ahead of its time. @@DrumdumsOfficial
I loved this movie as a kid in the 80s. It's a bit on the prophetic side with tech.. predicted digital replicas/deefake etc. in a way. I loved the Gun, it was a crazy concept and I always recall the scene where he gets hit and can't see the guy, but looks under the table and can still see his legs.. lol
I saw this movie when it was aired on HBO. Me and a friend had talked about it cause we thought it was great! It wasn't so much over the nude, it was more so of the story. We understood the phaze gun. You could do what you want and it would not come back to you. So we understood how it was to be used. But we always felt the story was being held back. As there was more to the thriller than what they had. Even to this day, I still think the story has been held back. But I wouldn't want to see a remake, remakes has been trash lately. I'm good with the rewatch of the original flick.
@@DrumdumsOfficial yes it was, my friend and I did make a make shift version just to do it. It used the TP roll carboard holder, regular tape, some wires and solder, a small switch from a broken stereo, a standard plastic flash light for the body housing, touch button from a broken VCR and one of them old flat flash cameras that had the built in flash system. It was cool project to do, and it worked, lol! Was fun to mess with until the flash burned out.
People should remember the MPAA allowed much more explicit content for PG ratings in the '70s and '80s, especially before PG-13 was invented. Both ratings were much more permissive and so were the times. The MPAA today is different people in less permissive times.
There is a full nude scene of Susan Day but it is brief and from the side, not the front. Also, keep your eyes peeled for Vanna White. I think she is in the photo shoot scene.
I never knew Michael Crichton was also a director. Did you know it was he who wrote the original Jurassic Park books? They are quite more brutal than the movies. Also, did you know about the 90s TV show called Young Indiana Jones? I have not seen it, so i dont know how good it is, but i thought it was something interesting to know.
The idea of replacing actors with AI created CGI replicas that the studios own has been around for a long time. Here nearly for the three years since the movie came out ; today's actors are worried about this technology replacing them. Kinda makes you think, maybe Randy Quad may not be so crazy.
Definitely barring the killing.... where do I get one of those "phase guns" to hypnotize beautiful women? 😂 Vaguely remember this movie from cable in the eighties. ❤ the aesthetics of that time period + James Coburn always made a great bad boy or villain -liked him in many of the western genre films he acted in.
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Have you heard about the Halloween prequel rumour.
Just watched Looker loved it thank you for the recommendation keep em coming 👍
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Hello yes Looker is one of my favorite movies. Susan Day was great and I love the theme song (also Kim Carne's) sing the same song. Last the Porsche look beautiful. Thanks for the video and the trivia.
Did you watch the blu ray of this? It includes a scene from the tv version that explains the plot better but is not in the theatrical edition.
With AI, deep fakes and it's implications - a movie well ahead of it's time.
Definitely!
This movie had a great satirical edge especially in the naming of the fake products that were being sold. There was even some comedy at the end when one of the villain's henchmen is being killed. Crichton did a good job poking fun at the average company and consumer.
Yes he did. I never caught the subtext when I was young, so that was a nice surprise.
This right here is why I love this channel. You always deliver a new gem for me too watch.
Yeah I'm constantly looking for these hidden gems.
Barry De Vorzon did the Theme from The Warriors and Kim Carnes does a kick ass version of Looker. I was always fascinated by this movie as a kid.
I was just listening to Kim Carnes version last night on my Alexa.
Yes! Love this flick and, like you, was around the same age when this was being shown on HBO. I watched it for the obvious reasons but I also thought the gun was cool. As time went on I began to realize this is not only a great movie but way ahead of its time in a lot of ways. This thriller is a gift that keeps on giving.
I'm glad I revisited it. I didn't remember a lot of the plot points, besides the obvious.
Great review! Michael Creighton wrotecand directed the very important "Westworld" previously.
The looker pistol actually caused the target to experience "lost time", allowing the bad guys to look for evidence and set up traps until some physical stimulus woke up the target. So that car chase and fight scenes we saw had some good moments of people waking up after being punched through a glass wall, or crashing a car into a city water feature. The murders of the models were also done using this to make the deaths look accidental. The looker used a pattern of light impulses to put people in pause, plus that technology would be used in the TV commercials to influence votes and whatever other evil deeds.
I can tell you're a big fan of this movie. Love that. It's so important to me.
Yes. Again, an update should be made because the public is way behind on what tech can do now. Just this Internet of Things and accessing the human hive mind and how they are going to get so good at programming us with augmented reality we will literally have to split into two species just to protect anything natural from techno takeover.
Watching looker back to back with incredible shrinking woman on HBO in the early 80s remains an all time memory for me...
Same. I remember watching ISW around the same time.
She's a Looker, that's what they say, she's got it all, she's got it made....they really did some world building for this one.
That what Lalo would say 'She's a looker.'
This was one of my favorite movies to catch on HBO when I was a kid.
Same!
I really enjoyed this movie back in the day. I totally forgot all about it. Thanks for bringing it up!
No problem!
I remember this movie. My older brother took me to see it on halloween, which is my birthday. A perfect movie for a 13 year old to go see on his birthday
Hell yeah!
If I wake up tomorrow and that looker song is stuck in my head then I’m calling off from work.
I listened to that song 3 times today. No kidding.
I remember this as well. Growing up then was so awesome. Great movies.
Definitely. It's a very important movie in my childhood.
Thank you for the shout out, Lee!! ☺️ Very nice review I’ll have to check out this one too!
You're definitely going to dig this one Erica!
I just happened to catch this on Tubi a couple weeks ago. The plot and CGI effects were years ahead.
Barry De Vorzon did the awesome score for The Warriors by the way.
I heard it just left Tubi too. Such a great hidden gem.
I love Looker. I always thought it was a masterpiece. Michael Crichton also directed Coma in 1978, which in my opinion was an outstanding movie of this genre. He also wrote (but didn't direct) Andromeda Strain, which I also very much enjoyed. In this COVID and post-COVID world, Andromeda Strain seems very relevant.
This film foreshadowed so many things to come with technology.
The funny thing is about this soundtrack is that Kim Carnes who did Betty Davis eyes got the rights to record the theme song from this movie and it’s amazing that this movie theme song wasn’t a bigger hit after Kim Carnes version was done, but the band from Norway who did the original Soundtrack this is one of their biggest hits and they’ve gone around the world singing this in concert all over but they’re basically only known in the country of Norway
You know, I just learned of Kim's version when researching this movie for my review. Then I listened to it repeated. I prefer the movie version, but still like hers too.
Hey,you brought me back with this movie….Great pick.
I love bringing viewers back!
Michael Crichton directed West world in 1973. He said it was a prototype for Jurassic Park so he reworked the script and changed a theme park with robots to one with dinosaurs.
Very interesting.
I love watching you Lee. Thanks for your content. You’re one of my top 5 UA-camrs
@@skribbleink83 Thank you so much! 👏❤️
I remember seeing this movie on TV some Friday night in 1983 or 1984 when I was in seventh or eighth grade. It reminded me of the movie Coma, and I remember thinking it was really good. Michael Crichton wrote and directed it; it has the likes of Albert Finney and James Coburn acting in it...but I haven't seen it since initially viewing it. I can't believe it's not a more popular movie. I don't think it even has much of a cult following. It's very strange how you sometimes get these pretty good movies with well-known directors and actors, interesting concepts and groundbreaking effects (in this case CGI and three-dimensional shading with a computer), but nobody has even seen it or knows anything about it.
Still to this day it has a very unique feel to it.
It's funny, I was obsessed with Michael Crichton in the 90s and early 00s, consuming as much of his work as I could find, yet I've never heard of this movie. Absolutely want to track this down after watching your assessment.
Yeah this is definitely not a well known one, but I love it.
It's available on bluray.
The first model was Terry something , who was Playmate of the Year .
Yes and she dated Crighton.
You had me at full frontal. Say no more. I’m sold.
Oh yeah. Definitely full frontal.
Haven't watched it in a really long time - was on in the afternoons on HBO back in the mid 80's ALL THE TIME, so I watched it after school a lot. (yes...I wrote this comment before I heard you say almost the same thing)
Haha all good. It's hard not to mention that. I'm sure a lot of people discovered this one through HBO.
With this one, you’ve elevated yourself to Hero status in my eyes.
Haha I'll take that!
Great review! I can't stress it enough, I love it when you cover this era; no matter the genre. I also really appreciate your pointing out seeing familiar faces (so frequently) in older movies, specifically the character actors around that time. I've been watching tons of old tv shows (and random films) from '69 to '83 specifically, and I love calling out their names just as a pop quiz! It's actually tons of fun watching the intro's to Quinn Martin crime-dramas and realizing that you may very well know EACH one of the guest stars. Btw, Crichton seems to really have a thing for TV actors.
Michael Crichton's movies have a specific style/tone, just like DePalma has his own style; they're easily recognizable if you went in not knowing who the director is. I think they can have some overlap in their style. I watched this and "Coma" around the same time (12 years ago), and I thought that it reminded me too much of "Coma", and in some ways, it reminds me a lot of "Runaway" too; which was the one of these three that I saw first. I actually just rewatched "Runaway" recently (probably seen it 6 times or so over the years), and I have an even greater appreciation for it, not to mention Tom Selleck, and Cynthia Rhodes (man, was she underappreciated).
For the record, I probably like Coma the most, then Runaway, then Looker. Speaking of lookers, Crichton's 4th wife Anne-Marie Martin (AKA Eddie Benton) was quite the looker in '84!
Yeah this one definitely had a DePalma feel to it. I was smiling ear to ear watching this. Brought back so many memories. I could easily cover this era of cinema all day. Thank you.
I just added this film to my Amazon wishlist. You sold me on it. Of course, the clips from it helped too. 😂
It's awesome. I bought it on Amazon Prime.
The one thing that never made sense about "Looker" was the reason WHY they were killing those models.
Wouldn't it have been easier to pay them? And if they killed them to continue using their images and not pay them, their family members would certainly file a lawsuit over that.
But this is a fun movie and visually, one of the best looking films I've ever seen. The picture quality is outstanding.
Yeah the reasoning is REALLY thin.
I never heard of this movie until I saw you talk about it on one of your live streams it was just okay for me I wanted to like it much more but I'm glad I checked it out
Yeah it's not the type of movie that is going to be universally praised. But I really dig the tone of it.
Back in the day before we got cable in our area we had WHT. It was only in the NYC metro area. I caught Looker several times on that channel.
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I love that you did a review on Looker. This remains one of my favorite movies. I also happened to notice the Haddonfield High School Shirt I grew up and still live in South Jersey I Graduated from West Deptford. I really enjoyed this review and i appreciate anything that brings exposure and attention to this movie. The mustache man aka Tim Rossovich played for the Philadelphia eagles and carved out a nice niche role for himself playing henchmen if you remember he played one of the henchmen in another classic Cloak and Dagger
Nice! I've been wanting to review Looker for years. Glad I finally did.
Love this movie. Used to watch on cable all the time back in the 80s. I have it on blu ray now. And you get to see Bernie!
You have great taste! Looker and Body Double are two of my favorites from the 80’s. Add Crimes of Passion as well.
Thank you! Yes I just love those early 80s thrillers.
The movie was based on facts of the technology during that time period that was being researched. I remembered a tv show that was similar to Inside Edition that showed the different things. In the movie "Phase Gun" is a device that would hypnotize someone. Back in the early 1980's the defense industry was actually researching a way of temporary slowing down if not pause someone using light pulses. This was to be used as crowd control. Also, look at the card reader scenes. The RFID chips were being developed to put into the badges. The bottom line, the movie took things that were actually being developed and projected it in the future of what it may become. This is similar to the terminator and A.I. The movie is also based on real fact about the television industry at one time accused of using Persistence of Vision for selling ad's. It was the same technique used by the movie theaters putting a single frame of popcorn or soft drink in the middle of the movie somewhere.
Yes that’s one reason why this movie is so interesting.
I saw Looker on HBO or Cinemax back in 1982 and what I mostly remember is the song and like a light gun. I also remember it had to do with plastic surgery I can't believe I remember something. And yeah that model is perfect why would she get plastic surgery? Anyway a memorable thriller. Good review and cool review Lee!👉😃👈
Thank you! The one thing I remember that always stayed with me from way back then was that opening sequence of her getting plastic surgery. Did not expect that much nudity for a PG movie.
@@DrumdumsOfficial I don't remember it but it must be titillating lol!🙉
"she's a looker!" Lol I think I saw this years ago but it's been so long definitely gonna rewatch love me a good thriller. Thank you 🙌
Yeah it's mesmerizing.
Hi there Lee!👋 I personally think Looker is GREAT!!💙 I can remember before cable really took off, there were these monthly movie services called SelecTV, and OnTV (they were separate companies that came with their own box that you connected to your TV, just like cable I guess, but it was only 1 channel if I remember correctly ~ Most people usually had one or the other), and I remember the movie being played quite frequently back then...Barry DeVorzon has worked on dozens of soundtracks, such as "Xanadu", "The Warriors", "Night of the creeps", "Mr. Mom", and "The Exorcist 3"...He is probably most famous for writing and composing "Nadia's Theme", along with Perry Botkin Jr., which became a Top 10 smash back in 1976, thanks to being used as the beginning music for the soap opera, "The Young and the Restless" ..I'm so happy to hear that you enjoy the song "Looker"... it just missed making the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, and made the "Bubbling Under" Chart at #104 or something like that ..The highly under-rated Kim Carnes recorded the song also for her 1982 album "Voyeur", which is fantastic!! She sounds so hauntingly beautiful and eerie...I sincerely feel that Kim's version should've been released as a single after the original failed to do much on radio, especially after the success that Kim had the previous year with "Bette Davis Eyes"...I'll share the link right here for you to hear Kim's version, which is a well-made music video that comes with some great photos of her and the movie...enjoy! Wishing you and yours a fabulous 4th of July holiday, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📺📼📀📺📼📀
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Barry DeVorzen's score is so good in this. I'm definitely going to seek out more of his work. Thank you!
DeVorzon also composed the theme music for the original SWAT TV series.
Saw this a bunch of times on HBO as a kid, this movie was awesome
Me too man!
Thanks for reviewing this movie. Never heard of it. I watched it and loved it. Plus I am a fan of James Coburn . It was cool seeing him in this movie.
I heard his part was much bigger in the movie, but it got cut down. Glad you enjoyed it RIck!
I grew up during the 80's and I must've watched this movie along with a host of other classics on HBO throughout that decade. Definitely a hidden gem that was far ahead of it's time.
Same!
The title is correct, I've not seen it, but I am familiar with it. Brad Jones aka The Cinema Snob didn't do a full video of it, but did show it in his long 1981 Year In Review episode, so yeah, that was where I heard of it originally. Got it bookmarked on a site to watch it too, but just not had the time to do so yet. Anyways, thank you, Lee.
P.S. I was meaning to say this, but forgot, but funny how now a days, they could in a way market it as From the Author of Jurassic Park. 😉
Haha yes they could. Definitely give this one a watch Jen. Really solid.
I remember watching this on Cable in the 80's.
Never heard of this movie. I will check it out. Looks really good.
What's Good Drum, I'm going to check this out
You’ll dig it!
This movie explains a lot about what we all see now on our phones, PCs, CGI, blue light,
Completely agree.
The gun is what made me remember this film and watch it again because it was so unique.
Haha definitely.
I remember seeing this when I was young too....maybe 8 or 9. Great movie, now I have to see it again.
Yeah I went ahead and bought it on Amazon Prime. Love it.
He also directed the great train robbery starring Sean Connery, and he and Sean Connery. Our friend were best friends, and years later Creighton criticized him for executive, producing rising Sun, the movie which was based on the book, but the movie backed off of what the novel indicated.
I also remember watching the movie several times on HBO or at least certain parts, for obvious reasons, but I also liked the synth score.
Man I've been obsessed with the score since this recent watch. And the "Looker" song by Susie Saad.
Yeah, this has always been one of my favorites. I'm 47 now and I too watched this on HBO growing up and this is my favorite era of cinema. Alot of movies at this time explored the growth and centralization of the tech R&D corporate military industrial complex. Similar movies include: Brainstorm, Tron, Wargames and Runaway.
It's like the Matrix was the last actual film that used movie making to imagineer the tech future before the internet took over.
I think films before that time were a better blend of human storytelling and marketing a way of life for the public to adopt.
Thankfully, these films exist now as prescient cautionary tales, Robo-Cop being another example, that are still the best realized sci-fi scripts to hit the screen.
They could remake this today with Instagram models and deep fake tech.
Where is the Michael Crichton of today? That's cool that he directed in addition to writing.
Man you can't go wrong with early 80s movies. There's just something about that era of cinema.
Great review!! I felt the same when I saw this as a kid. I have to say at the end of this video I thought I was too high when you started talking like the Micromachines guy.
Haha I couldn't resist. I've been getting a lot of comments on this vid. A lot of Looker fans out there. Really cool.
I’m around the same age as you. I used to watch this on HBO when I was a kid.
I didn’t remember that much about the movie though. Just bits and pieces.
When I watched it 40 years later, I was amazed at how good it was 👍
Yeah man I only remembered bits and pieces as well. Glad I watched it again. Really solid, and love the score!
I remember this and have watched it several times. It's one of my favorites.
Love it!
Always had a thing for Laurie Partridge.
Yep.
This is almost what is going on now. CGI. and actors are afraid of this! This movie was made 42 years ago!
I know! Pretty crazy.
hush! the phase gun is an awesome concept
It's unique haha.
Thanks Mr. Lee
For Reviewing This
I Definitely Never Heard Of This
I May Look Into Watching It
Another good recommendation for you Polly! And I’m hearing it’s on Tubi right now. By the way, I could not find Road games on shudder. Are you in Canada?
@@DrumdumsOfficialI’m in the USA
It’s still on Shudder
I messaged you about it
As for Looker I found it on Tubi after watching your review
Hey Mr. Lee
Thanks For The Recommendation I Finally Got To Watch It
Good Underated Gem
But That Final Act Was A Little Messy & Confusing
@@ms.carter3843 Yeah it doesn’t finish strong. But I love it.
This was a pretty fun watch. I think it's funny that they never really bother to explain why the women are being killed
Haha yeah I was thinking that too. Like....why?!
I saw this on Tubi but wasn’t sure to watch it or not. Thanks for the recommendation
Oh damn I didn’t even realize this was on Tubi. I just bought it on vudu for 10 bucks. The Blu-ray doesn’t have much in the way of special features so I figured why not.
I saw this on video in the early 80's. I rented it because I was bored and I was very surprised at how good it was.
The idea of hiding hypnotic suggestions in advertising is quite a scary one. The film They Live broached the subject, albeit in a different way.
The bit of this movie I remember best is when the body is lying on the table and the family are superimposed and the little boy says "Aw gee, not the same thing again, ma?". Had me in stitches.
I agree, it's an excellent, underrated film.
Watching this for the first time in almost 40 years was like visiting an old friend.
I love Looker! Its a remarkably cool film from the '80s. I knew about it from the cover in rental stores, but never quite watched it until the WAC bluray came out. Its a cool flick!
It's such a hidden gem.
Funny how actors now are fighting for the right that Studios will not use their digital likeness and not pay them. This movie is what I thought of when I heard that the actors were doing this. I agree that the car chase was over the top. They should've rethought that part of the movie.
Yes! This movie is so far ahead of it's time, yet very 80s in feel.
So many afternoons on HBO watching this…Took me way back with this one Lee…
Yes! Couldn't agree more. This movie is like a warm blanket.
This 80s movie is a sci fi 💎
It's so slept on.
I saw this at the Drive-In on a double bill with Chuck Norris' An Eye for an Eye. Good times. :)
Damn that's awesome! I saw Psycho III and Hills Have Eyes Part 2 at the drive-in in 86. Good times.
Always looking for a 80s movie that I haven’t seen I will have to check it out
Definitely do!
James Coburn said most of his scenes ended up on the cutting room floor, leaving what was left making almost no sense.
Yeah his performance definitely felt like it was missing something.
@@DrumdumsOfficial My favorite James Coburn performance was in Hard Times. He was a shady manager to a street fighter played by Charles Bronson. Good fight scenes, but Coburn was the one who carried the movie with his personality
Underrated gem for sure.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE! I wanted that light gun so badly when I was a little kid!
Haha nice!
It was panned back in the day but maybe in retrospect, it has something to say.
Duel with Dennis Weaver is another classic
Trivia: What did the "L.O.O.K.E.R." acronym of the phase gun actually stand for?
Do you remember?
One of my favorites ❤ Saad is my girl ❤
Yes! Thanks for watching.
Almost like the movie coma but different.
I've brought this movie up when the AI stuff started, "We're going to see commercials in a different light soon." A couple years, lookers will just be a file on a computer.
Yep, and here we are.
I absolutely love this movie. Will always remind me of my childhood
Same! It's like a nostalgia rush.
You remember a movie called the dark or a movie called lipstick from the 70s 80s
I think I've heard of Lipstick.
Great movie. I remember watching it when I was around 8 years old. Besides the beautiful women, the storyline completely captivated me. As I matured, I realized how ahead of the time this movie was. The sci-fi angle is so captivating as well. Maybe I`m in the minority but I always felt this was a classic and so relevant. Another classic is Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.
Yeah there's something about the story that just sucks you in.
Its the concept of looking perfect. Now with social media, we see everyone trying to outpost each other by making their lives look perfect... the constant travel, vacations, foods, cars, outfits, etc... Looker just touched on ones physical looks but social media targets every aspect of ones life. The movie was truly ahead of its time.
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The best movie ever! Albert Finney and Susan Day and don't forget the the songs in it from SAAD.❤
I loved this movie as a kid in the 80s. It's a bit on the prophetic side with tech.. predicted digital replicas/deefake etc. in a way. I loved the Gun, it was a crazy concept and I always recall the scene where he gets hit and can't see the guy, but looks under the table and can still see his legs.. lol
It's crazy how accurate it is now.
I saw this movie when it was aired on HBO. Me and a friend had talked about it cause we thought it was great! It wasn't so much over the nude, it was more so of the story. We understood the phaze gun. You could do what you want and it would not come back to you. So we understood how it was to be used. But we always felt the story was being held back. As there was more to the thriller than what they had. Even to this day, I still think the story has been held back. But I wouldn't want to see a remake, remakes has been trash lately. I'm good with the rewatch of the original flick.
The phaze gun was definitely an interesting weapon haha.
@@DrumdumsOfficial yes it was, my friend and I did make a make shift version just to do it. It used the TP roll carboard holder, regular tape, some wires and solder, a small switch from a broken stereo, a standard plastic flash light for the body housing, touch button from a broken VCR and one of them old flat flash cameras that had the built in flash system. It was cool project to do, and it worked, lol! Was fun to mess with until the flash burned out.
People should remember the MPAA allowed much more explicit content for PG ratings in the '70s and '80s, especially before PG-13 was invented. Both ratings were much more permissive and so were the times. The MPAA today is different people in less permissive times.
Yes. Poltergeist is a great example.
I remember this movie. Very cool.
Indeed.
Loving the deep cuts
Thank you! I'll keep them coming.
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Thank you!
Looker is a great movie. Watched it when it first came out and many times over the years.
It's a movie memory that will stay with me forever.
There is a full nude scene of Susan Day but it is brief and from the side, not the front. Also, keep your eyes peeled for Vanna White. I think she is in the photo shoot scene.
Oh damn! How did I miss that!
Did you notice the voice in the fake perfume commercial sounds like the voice of Morris the Cat?
@@masonbricke4568 Haha I did not
I remember seeing this rented it from blockbuster also remember that song
I never knew Michael Crichton was also a director. Did you know it was he who wrote the original Jurassic Park books? They are quite more brutal than the movies. Also, did you know about the 90s TV show called Young Indiana Jones? I have not seen it, so i dont know how good it is, but i thought it was something interesting to know.
Yep. He's written quite a few high profile stories.
I loved this movie as a kid and the faze gun!!
Yes! Can't believe it took me this long to revisit it.
This is one of my favorites from the 80s. I was 6 years old when it was released. Yeah yeah! LOL I saw it on HBO.
I loved it back then, and for the life of me I can't believe I didn't watch it again for 40 years.
Good movie. I saw it at the theater back in 1981.
Hell yeah!!
The idea of replacing actors with AI created CGI replicas that the studios own has been around for a long time.
Here nearly for the three years since the movie came out ; today's actors are worried about this technology replacing them.
Kinda makes you think, maybe Randy Quad may not be so crazy.
Yep. This movie needs a 2nd "look".
Thanks, never heard of this one
Welcome. Thanks for watching!
Definitely barring the killing.... where do I get one of those "phase guns" to hypnotize beautiful women? 😂 Vaguely remember this movie from cable in the eighties. ❤ the aesthetics of that time period + James Coburn always made a great bad boy or villain -liked him in many of the western genre films he acted in.
Haha right?!
I saw Looker at the movies in Los Angeles as a young man. It was a great movie. Have not seen it since. But, wonder if I would like now.
This was the first time I saw it in 30 years.
@@DrumdumsOfficial Well, I am going to give it a looksy - ROTFL Get it? Looker, looksy! I am slaying me!!!
@@TMendocino 🤣🤣
For 10.00 around dollars you could buy digital for utube view.