China Lake

1983

Thriller

5
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 373 373

short film

Director

Top cast

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319.2 MB
1280*536
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
12 hr 34 min
Seeds 4
592.5 MB
1920*804
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
12 hr 34 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CalDexter 7 / 10

Excellent short movie from the director of The Hitcher

This short film runs for thirty minutes and was written and directed by Robert Harmon who thanks to this flick got the job of directing the classic horror chiller The Hitcher.Its the story of Motorcycle cop Donnelly, a man who spends his vacation time driving around on his Harley in the desert highways still dressed in his uniform.Clearly halfway through this short we learn that Donnelly is deeply disturbed and psychopathic after coming across a few people that have upset him in his twisted ideal of what is right and wrong.The actor Charles Napier does an excellent job of portraying this unpredictable and very dangerous Traffic Cop. My favourite scenes are when he has some banter with a waitress in a roadside diner and instantly dismisses her after getting angry in his mind at two cement workers,(one of them played by William Sanderson who was J.F. Sebastian in Blade Runner) who are eating their dinners and minding their own business. But in Donnelly's dangerous mind they are guilty of just being there.The photography of this movie short is beautiful...the desert locations and use of music from other film sources are quite well put together. If you loved The Hitcher you will see this as a sort of dummy run, albeit a very good dummy run.Seven Out Of Ten
Reviewed by russell100uk 8 / 10

Show's why they chose Harmon for The Hitcher...

Reviewed by helenpurcell2012 8 / 10

Thrilling Short Film

A mesmerising short thriller from the director of 1986's even more remarkable "The Hitcher". Set in a beautiful vast desert just like the Hitcher, this kept me enthralled from beginning to end. I believe that to make a movie villain watchable, he has to have a strong sense of mystery which Charles Napier as Donnelly, the psycho cop, has in spades. I'd say he is almost on a par with Rutger Hauer in the Hitcher who to me was the scariest and most beguiling "bad guy" I have ever seen in all my 37 years on this earth! I really do not understand why most modern movies do not take this approach - modern movie bad guys lack charisma so much, they are all young and cute no grit and the movies are soulless. No thanks. I'll stick to watching these types! I highly recommend this to horror fans old and young!
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