Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

O2D I saw that AMC was running this at 4:45 am today so I stayed up to check it out. Another in a long line of terrible decisions. Not only is the movie terrible, AMC had the nerve to show some stupid 15 minute compressed version that they put together. The only movie that American Movie Classics played in a week and they couldn't run the whole thing. Unfortunately I decided that I needed to see the whole thing and now I can never get that time back. At one point a guy says "She can wait, we can't. I have doctor's reports to fill out!' What?? The only thing I think I understood was that the guy's sister wanted to have sex with him and I'm not even sure about that. I have seen a lot of bad movies and this makes most of them look pretty good.

sol ****SPOILERS**** Suffering from a sever case of post-traumatic shock syndrome due to his experiences in the Korean War Elliot Freeman, Lee Philips, took up painting to calm his already shattered nerves. Becoming a hermit Elliot saw no one but those young and shapely women who posed for him at his out of the way home in the wilds of Connecticut.One of Elliot's models Delores Martello, Kaye Elhardt, got a lot more intimate with Elliot then posing for him in the nude. Delores had a one night stand with the highly sensitive and high strung artist and accused him of knocking her up. Elliot knowing that Delores was full of it, she had a number of boyfriends on the side, refused t marry her and threw Delores out of his studio. It's not that long after Delores was given the heave ho by Elliot that she was found brutally murdered in her furnished apartment.A prime suspect in Delores' murder Elliot is not the only person who suspected in killing her. Delores' ex-boyfriend leather-jacket biker and collage laundry boy Charlie Perone, James Farentino, is also a person of interest in Delores' death. It seems that Charlie had it in for both Delores and Elliot since she dumped him for the great painter. It was just a few days before her death that Charlie confronted Elliot and Delores at the Pine Tree Inn where Elliot almost killed him.With Charlie having an air-tight alibi his girlfriend Slivia, Silvia Miles, who swears that he spent the night with her at the time that Delores was murdered it's now Elliot who has a lot of explaining to do to the police. While all this is going on another young woman who had the hots for the handsome and sensitive, as well as troubled, artist Alice St. Clair, Lorraine Rogers, is found murdered in a nearby lake! In this case Elliot & Charlie both prime suspects in Alices death can't come up with any alibi's to where they were at the time of her murder!The movie "Midnight Violence" keeps you guessing to who the killer really is always showing him from the neck on down. wearing a Bogie-like trench-coat and paratrooper combat boots the killer is always stalking women who have anything romantically to do with Elliot. It's when Elliot's sept-sister Lynn, Margot Hartmen, who together with the Freeman family attorney Adrian Benedict, Shepperd Strudwick, want to get Elliot badly needed psychiatric treatment that the killer goes into overdrive and thus overplays his hand.psycho-like slasher film with the killer so obsessed in his fascination with Elliot that he was actually the reason for Elliot's mental breakdown. This happened at the beginning of the movie in a quail hunt that Elliot participated in after he came back from Korea. Charlie for his part turned out to be not only a man who couldn't, despite his animal-like Stanley Kowalski persona, hold on to his women but who disrespect the only one, Silvia, who could keep him from being arrested by the cops by sticking to his hair-brained alibi. There's also, in a rare dramatic Dirty Harry-like role, future comedian Dick Van Patten as the tough as nails and no BS police detective Lt. Palmer. Lt. Plamer despite his great dislike of that macho swaggering creep Charlie Perone risked his life in saving Perone's neck when he, trying to escape from the law, jumped into the lake with a bullet lodged in his leg.We finally get to see who the killer really is but it's done in such a confusing style, with a double-twist ending, with him going into a whole song and dance routine that you soon lose interest in him together with his confusing movie ending cock & bull story.

Scarecrow-88 A Korean "one-man war machine" who witnessed the loss of many soldiers in his platoon, has found his niche in art..yet Elliot Freeman(Lee Philips)is seen as the possible killer right at the beginning after his rather crazy middle-aged father is shot by someone in the bushes point-blank in the face. His sister, Lynn(Margot Hartman)was also present when that nasty incident took place and returns home after being away for 6 years to attend the Belmont School for Girls nearby Elliot's home. A psychopath murdered a former model of Elliot's and it is possible he's responsible, although, it's obvious(if you've seen your share of mysteries, it's obvious he's not the likely correct candidate to be the real killer)he's merely the fall-guy for someone else. Another possible suspect is muscle-headed studly biker creep Charlie(the chiseled, young James Farentino trying to summon Brando from "The Wild One")who dated the murdered model and the victim of an altercation with Elliot over her at a local pub. On the case is cop Palmer(a thin Dick Van Patten, speaking noir copper lingo)and his leads are few. Offered as a possible suspect is a school professor/peeping tom who likes to spy on the girls as they shower in their dorm rooms and out in the local swimming hole. Elliot has a love-interest who lives at a farm near his home named Carol(Jean Hale)whose life you know will be in peril at the end as the killer emerges with his/her mask unveiled. The real star of the film for yours truly was the sex kitten Lorraine Rogers as Alice St. Clair, the school tramp who is definitely one smokin' dame. She has a heated make-out session in the school laundry room with Farentino. With Rogers as the sex-bomb, you have Sylvia Miles, ugh, as the town ugly who is enamored with her man Charlie, although he(who could blame him?)looks elsewhere for sex. She is so in love with Charlie, Sylvia will cover up for him when the police come snooping for an alibi.Crudely made, amateurish shocker shows that it was independently made because the editing is anything but professional. The pacing lags, yet it's sleazy enough thanks to some naughty girls who like to unbutton their tops. I've seen worse, and this film has that exploitive nature thanks to the vicious knife attacks, so it works in fits and starts. But, the film gets bonus points thanks to Lorraine Rogers..she often made my heart skip a beat.

ferbs54 A film probably better known by its alternate, later title of "Psychomania," "Violent Midnight" (1963) proved a very pleasant surprise for me indeed. The film centers around Elliott Freeman, a young, reclusive painter who won't be a free man much longer if the local police have their way. One of Freeman's pretty young models has just been found knifed to death (the picture's debt to Hitchcock's "Psycho" is fairly evident during her suggested, shadowy slaying), and before long, one of his sister's co-ed friends follows suit.... An independent production more than ably helmed by Del Tenney, this film offers any number of unexpected treats. It features beautiful and artfully composed B&W photography; nice visuals of the Stamford, CT countryside; an intriguing, jazzy score; some surprising and titillating near nudity by a good number of comely lasses; and interesting performances by its largely no-name cast. The only performers I was at all familiar with here were Silvia (sic) Miles as a blond bar floozy; TV favorite Dick van Patten as a hard-boiled cop (!); and, in his first film role, James Farentino as a randy thug who can't seem to help getting in trouble. The actress Lorraine Rogers is also very fine as a blond, aggressively lustful student. The picture concludes quite suspensefully, with the knife-wielding killer stalking a very pretty gal during a thunderstorm. The killer's identity comes waaaaaay out of left field, I must say; don't even try to guess, unless you're infinitely better at these things than I am! This film also features one of the most deliciously morbid folksingers you'll ever want to hear; a perfect accompaniment to the chilly goings-on in "Violent Midnight." And oh...a great-looking print on this DVD, from the good folks at Dark Sky.