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Top Ten Revenge Flicks

When you feel the urge to see someone get theirs... these movies serve it up, nice and cold.

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Once Upon a Time in the West
Bronson has it in for Henry Fonda. But not until the absolute perfect moment will he exact his vengeance. Even if it means saving the life of the man he hates. Awesome in so many respects, Leone’s film also contemplates revenge as an unstoppable force

Nevada Smith
Another western. This time Steve McQueen hunts down the dudes who skinned his mama. He even goes to prison to get his hands on one of them. Big budget, big screen western with just enough seediness.

FROM HELL TO ETERNITY
Jeffrey Hunter is raised by a Japanese family in the USA after his parents die. This makes him a natural to serve in the Pacific with the Marines as an interpreter. But Hunter loses his cool when best bddy David Jansen is killed. Hunter goes on a one-man mission to kill as many Japanese as he can.

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Thief
James Caan is a bank burglar and the best there is. But his luck turns when he starts taking jobs from an organized crime syndicate. They threaten his new found happiness with Tuesday Weld and their adopted infant son. Caan becomes an instrument of death in an edge of the seat mass murder to close the flick out.

The Dogs of War
Christopher Walken is a mercenary hired to scout out a possible revolution in an African hellhole. He gets the living crap beat out of him and barely escapes with his life. But he returns with the men and munitions to make them VERY sorry they ever messed with him.

Point Blank
Lee Marvin gets screwed over by fellow robbers and they leave him for dead. Bad idea. When he’s finally released from prison with not a dime of his filthy lucre and his girlfriend nowhere to be found he goes on a tireless hunt for the everyone who did him wrong. Dreamlike and nightmarish in turn.

High Plains Drifter
As mentioned above. Clint comes back from the dead to make an entire town pay for his murder. The bullwhip outta nowhere is the standout scene of this movie. Tough, mean and served cold.

Rolling Thunder
Paul Schrader scripted this bad boy on the heels of Taxi Driver. William DeVane comes back from a North Vietnamese prison camp and does NOT run for the senate. Instead a bunch of lowlifes kill his family and then, just for kicks, take DeVane’s hand off using a garbage disposal. DeVane enlists the aid of Hanoi Hilton roomie Tommy Lee Jones to go on the vengeance trail. DeVane now has a hook in place of his hand and puts it to good use.

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White Line Fever
Pretty much no plot to this one. Interstate trucker Jan Michael Vincent is pushed and pushed until he ain’t gonna be pushed no more. He brings the hammer down on the roadrats who’ve been needling him in a big way.

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The Fly II
For sweet, sweet revenge I really think it’s hard to beat this sequel to the Cronenberg classic. Eric Stoltz is the result of the reason why humans and insects shouldn’t date. As a possible mutant, he’s kept isolated from society while in his human (or pupi) stage. But they can’t resist messin’ with the boy so when he does go insectoid like his old man the flypoop hits the fan. But the ultimate payback to the main badguy is poetic and disturbing and the best “gotcha!” I’ve ever seen.

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