 to another episode of Fredfully Forgotten Horror Movies. But before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we are drinking Crawl Space Colch. Alright, you'll go on that wheelie thing that he's got to go get a beer, like through the docks. Putting in all that lipstick and everything. Yeah, just to go get a beer. Today we're gonna bring to you a Patreon request, and this one is by Douglas Draw, I believe he's the way to pronounce it. 1982's Silent Rage. This Raaaaage! This movie is directed by Michael Miller, and it stars of all people Chuck Norris. Yeah. Famous action star and one of his best movies ever is Sidekicks. It also stars Ron Silver, and he's been in The Entity, and he's that shitty bad guy in Time Cop. William Findley is in this, and of course we all know him from Phantom of the Paradise. Click the link above, we did the review. Silent Rage starts off with our main character here, John Kirby, waking up and he's in a cold sweat. Outside he's kids playing, he's a big ruckus, gets up and he's kind of all distraught, and he picks up this phone. He can tell he's kind of on the verge of something, and I'm losing it. Doc, I'm losing it! Puts down the phone, wanders outside, and you kids go play outside! He says you can see him grab this axe and just kind of like half-heartedly chop bit of wood, and then, what are you kids doing? Come inside! Takes the axe and slowly walks inside, and looks over her shoulder and realize that this guy's standing there with a fucking axe! She runs up the stairs, I guess the husband of years, all this promotion, he comes out, grabs a chair, smashes it over, Kirby's back, and Kirby just turns around, right in the fucking head with this axe! Everyone in the neighborhood can hear you, the mailman, all the stops and looks. With that safari hat on? He takes this axe to her, and we assume kills her. Cops all show up, and this is where Chuck Norris comes into play. Knows there's a madman, and there are the fucking axe, and just walks in nonchalant, doesn't even draw a gun or anything. John Kirby attacks him in the bedroom, leaps out the window onto like this ledge, and then off the house and into the bushes! Kirby starts beating him with this 2x4 thing. In the back and everything? Eventually Dan gets some apprehended, and gets put in the back of the cop car, breaks the shackles, kicks the fucking door right off the hinges! Super strong! Ridiculous! The police force just blow him away! Dr. Vaughn and Spears have been working on this serum to heal cells and cell structure and revive people, and they're like, maybe we should try it out on him! And they like double the dosage too, and you see that his brainwaves roll? In the corridors of this hospital, Dan meets an old fling of his, slaps him of course, drives her home, don't even think about it, and suddenly they're all in bed? Yeah he works fast! There's this like long fucking vignette of like the mic on vacation or something! They're all in that hammock! Eating all this fruit on the bed, fruit platter and champagne, like Jesus! Sheriff Dan and his partner are just driving down the street. They pass by the local tavern, I guess, and they see all these bikes! Turn around! Let's go back there! It's just super destroying like the tires! They get into the tavern and completely taken over by bikers! Who called the police? Did you call the police? Uh-uh! Did you? Y'all point at that owner guy and he's all strung up with some new strung? He's like gagging everything! So they get into some big fucking bar fight! Snaps the fluke and just cleans house with it! Throws that guy's head into the side of the bar! Throws that guy through that lattice thing! He goes all smooth clean through that lattice! Then he starts kicking like, and it's all sped up! He kicks the guy's knee backwards! He gets on to go drive away and he hits him in the face with that pool cue and he hits the top of that window sill! And just the motorcycle goes out the window! John Kirby has kind of gotten loose in some space age jumpsuit! He proceeds to go to Dr. Halman's house. I'm guessing for revenge because Dr. Halman let him die. Yeah, he wanted to let him die. He was against reviving him with this serum. He comes through the door and he takes the knife. He shoots Kirby and Kirby goes down and just as he starts to walk over Kirby, he grabs his leg. His wife comes home. She ends up having a confrontation with Kirby as well. She hides. He's behind the door and just slams her head right into the wall. So Halman's sister proceeds to come home, getting ready to go on this vacation with Sheriff Dan. He takes the covers off and it's Halman's wife that's laying in bed like full of blood and dead. Meanwhile, they can't find John Kirby. He's gone. Dr. Spears opens the door and all of a sudden he's right there. Actually, he's kind of come home, right? And full of blood too. So Dr. Vaughn and Dr. Spears want to put an end to John Kirby. Dr. Vaughn injects him with something that I guess stopped his heart to kill him. He goes to this tunnel, like here's his tunnel, and he hears noise behind him. He sees like this silhouette that's come down these stairs. It's John Kirby and he's got a vial of that serum. He injects it in him and kills Dr. Vaughn. So now John Kirby's loose in the hospital and Sheriff Dan is on his way back to the hospital and that's where we're going to end it. A good showdown coming up. So stay tuned and keep watching Silent Rage. So Silent Rage basically, I guess you can gather by the plot is a slasher kind of vibe meets an action movie. Yeah, meets a Chuck Norris movie. It's kind of a neat blend between the two, which you don't think really would work. But it actually works pretty damn well. And you can definitely see where they've gotten their influences from. Oh, for sure. The Halloween influence. Wouldn't it be cool if Michael Myers fought Chuck Norris in a movie? Well, we don't have the rights to use Michael Myers. So let's think of a different way to do it without getting sued jumpsuit like Michael Myers. He's slow. He doesn't talk. He just uses brute force. The POV when he grabs a knife from the cutting door. At that whole house scene, right? And even the music too. The music is very good in this movie. And there are moments where it's super Halloween influence. Yeah, they also bring in a bit of a monster aspect too, right? Like with this kind of Frankenstein deal. Yeah, the Mad Scientist vibe with the downstairs and the basement laboratory. Yeah, they revive them with that serum shit. What do you think about this movie too, which they don't do in like the Halloween movies? They explain as to why he's unkillable. You understand why. It actually makes it a bit more scarier because you know in the back of your mind, what's going to put this guy down? The only thing that's going to stop him, it seems karate. Yeah. Yeah. Well, not just any karate. Chuck Norris karate. The way the movie's structured is that you've got all of the scenes, all the horror type stuff with John Kirby. And then you kind of have all of the karate type stuff with Chuck Norris. Bar fights. Yeah. And the two rarely meet each other, right? So it's almost, you can feel that separation. And actually to me, it feels more like three movies. It feels like a slasher with the John Kirby stuff. Yeah. And then it feels like a martial arts movie with Chuck Norris. And it also feels like a Mad Scientist monster movie with the laboratory scenes. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So they could have did a better job with kind of amalgamating the whole movie somehow. But I mean, it still worked out. Yeah. A lot of really cool camera angles and shots and framing in this movie and a lot of really neat continuous shots, like that first opening sequence where he wakes up and he comes downstairs, he's on the phone and he walks outside, grabs the axe. That's all one shot. The stunts for this movie are really good too. The big showdown where he's on the back of the truck and he's a real guy. There's no CGI. There's no, it's not. It's some dummy. It's a guy climbing on the back of a truck as it's moving. And then like there's a spot where he gets hit by the truck. You can tell it's a real dude being just fucking hit by a truck. Yeah, it's really good. You know, we got practical effects and like when they're cutting him to show that he's healing quick and he seals up. Yeah. Like it's really good. All of the kills are great. And the fight scene, it's probably the best part of the whole movie. Even though I think this is more of a horror movie, it's the best part. It's like the camera angles, the shots, the cutting, everything. The sound. I was howling. I was in tears when I watched that fight scene. I remember the first thing I did was I messaged you. I'm like, I'm in tears right now after watching that fight scene. Holy Christ. In contrast to that, one downfall to this movie is the final showdown between Kirby and Chuck Norris, which you know is gonna happen. It's gonna get there. Exactly. And when you see how good that bar fight is like, oh, fuck that showdown between Kirby and Chuck Norris is gonna be good. And it kind of doesn't really deliver. It's like it's almost like someone completely different directed that one scene. It's like one far shot. There isn't much cutting and disappointing that last fight scene. Yeah. Yeah. I know. It leaves you wanting so much more. But that bar fight scene is still good enough to make you leave happy though. You know what? Even if you don't like the rest of the movie, that bar scene makes up for everything. Yeah, it does. If you want to see a movie that's a really neat mesh between monster movie, slasher movie, and martial arts movie, well, Silent Rage is like the only thing on the planet that really exists like this. And they do it very well, actually. Yeah. For the most part, you know. Yeah. It's an enjoyable movie and it keeps you riveted pretty much the whole time. Yeah. Yeah. You won't be bored throughout Silent Rage, that's for sure. That's a definite. Between the kills, the fight scenes, and that romance montage. It's a fucking ute. It's a great party movie and you'd never be bored throughout the whole thing. So check out 1982 Silent Rage and until next time, keep drinking.