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Information
- A.k.a.
- Eight Hours of Terror
- Year
- 1957
- Runtime
- 78 min.
- Director
- Seijun Suzuki
- Genres
- Action, Crime
- Rating *
- 6.8
- Votes *
- 12
- Checks
- 79
- Favs
- 0
- Dislikes
- 1
- Favs/checks
- 0.0% (0:79)
- Favs/dislikes
- 0:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
A group of disparate (and desperate) people hop a bus in Seijun Suzuki's Eight Hours of Terror and get more than they bargained for (but can't say they weren't warned). Mudslides have permanently delayed their train and there are violent bank robbers hiding on the road they have to travel, plus the prisoner transfer of a murderer on the ride with them. Paranoia eventually gives way to actual trouble as they find themselves on the worst trip of their lives. But fear has a way of exposing just who's brave and who's a coward, and more importantly, who's selfish and who's selfLESS. Fear makes monsters and it makes heroes. Finding out which are which is at least in this cross-section of post-War Japanese society is at least as interesting as the suspenseful crime thriller that's one the wing. The year is 1957 and Suzuki has yet to become the surreal noir director he will become in the 60s, but he still manages the noir all right. 7 months 2 weeks ago