Sudden Fury (1975) – aka Moustache Wars as I like to call it – is an entertaining low-budget Canadian Hitchcockian thriller that I only knew about thanks to a Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray release. A seemingly straight arrow type (Dominic Hogan who resembles Peter Serafinowicz) in a plaid sports jacket takes his wealthy wife (Gay Rowan) on a road trip through the countryside and emerges as a panicky menace capable of murderous deeds. An innocent bystander (Dan Hennessey who resembles John Oates) tries to do the right thing and intervene, the result of which is a movie with a noirish set-up that observes characters running up and down an isolated country road for quite some time, wandering around to a third act western showdown, which is capped off with a surprising conclusion that is both ironic and mundane. It’s like a Coen Brothers twists of fate Blood Simple type movie with the aesthetics of an instructional road safety video. Also if you didn’t realise it was Canadian, they say “sorry” about a dozen times in the first thirty minutes. Directed by Brian Damude, maybe the only movie he made. Remastered Vinegar Syndrome edition is available to stream in Australia on Tubi (once again lots of Vinegar Syndrome and American Genre Film Archive releases on there in HD quality – just have to put up with the occasional ad during viewing). Recommended if you like your low budget Canuxploitation.
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