Tired of trips to crowded theaters full of noisy kids and overpriced food? Had your fill of vapid reality shows on TV? Wondering what to stock your Netflix queue with? Every week, Robert Saucedo’s “It Came From the Video Store” will point you in the direction of a movie that is worth seeing and should be available in a video store near you.
There are few things in life that can prepare a person for the sheer majesty that is watching a scene in which William Shatner and Harold Sakata (Oddjob, to those James Bond fans) compete in a battle of bad delivery. From stilted pauses to bizarre emphasis choices, the two trade incompressible dialogue the way chess masters’ fingers dance across a game board.
Impulse is a 1974 film staring the incomparable Shatner as Matt Stone, a polyester suit-wearing, balloon-hating, sword-wielding con-man who just happens to have an unfortunate tendency to kill women. When he’s not strangling ex-girlfriends and dumping their bodies into the river or running over dogs in the street with his car, Stone spends his time tricking people into investment scams. Unfortunately for Stone, his latest mark’s daughter sees right through his charming persona and suave exterior.
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