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Bronson’s Back! DEATH WISH 3 Midnights This Weekend at The Hi-Pointe!

By Tom Stockman | March 29, 2015

“They killed the Giggler, man!”

DEATH WISH 3 screens midnights this Friday and Saturday (April 3^rd and 4^th) at The Hi-Pointe Theater (1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, MO 63117) as part of Destroy the Brain’s Late Night Grindhouse Film Series

The wonderfully preposterous DEATH WISH 3 (1985) sends Charles Bronson to a New York City portrayed as a vast burned-out wasteland with tenements occupied by terrified old people and the entire city dominated by gangs of unwashed thugs (and not a cop in sight). I’ve seen DEATH WISH 3 many times over the years and it becomes funnier as it ages. The action is overblown to comic proportions and I lose count of all the people who are shot, blown up, stabbed, beaten, pushed off of rooftops, and generally maimed during the course of the film. DEATH WISH 3 plays like Charles Bronson’s 90-minute shooting gallery. Thugs pop up from behind cars, buildings, and storefronts, all to be mowed down in a sea of gunfire and the last half hour is pure madness. Bronson, usually a silent killer in his films, makes all kinds of humorous quips before letting loose the carnage and DEATH WISH 3, the last of six movies Bronson made for British director Michael Winner, is the best of the four DEATH WISH sequels.