
Rating: 4 stars
Seen 1 time
Seen on: 02/02/2010
Most recently watched by noahphex
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist’s supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.
Rated R | Length 95 minutes
Louis Gossett, Jr. | Joan Pringle | Rhonda Shear | Julian Christopher | Earl Billings | Fuddle Bagley | Glynn Turman | Stephanie Faulkner | Carl W. Crudup | Bob Minor | Jo Anne Meredith | Vernel Bagneris | Paul Galloway | David McKnight | Fred Pinkard | Alice Jubert | Barbara Tasker | Hazel Roberts | Deonna Lang | Ruth Kempf | Tom Alden | Melvin Bijou Jr. | Blue Lu Barker | Joseph Collins | Fred Ford | Chauncey Leon Gilbert | Tony Owens | Samuel 'Catfish' Routh | Timothy Toseborough | Danny Dunn
A lot of times the Terror Tuesday will be excellent not because the film itself is amazing but because its bad and just entertaining with a crowd. JD’s Revenge stands out because it’s just a solid movie. I loved the performance from Glenn Turman who is amazing playing the role of Isaac, a smart guy, trying to be a lawyer with a good group of friends and a loving girlfriend. When he becomes possessed by the ex-gangster J.D. Walker, he takes on this pimp persona, the one thing that makes this movie sort of a blaxploitation film. Really, it’s just a possession/horror thriller and because the guy who gets possessed becomes almost a caricature of a pimp, thats where it makes it into a blaxploitation flick. It’s an interesting duality and one that’s made even better by having an amazing performance by Turman (who I guess is on The Wire, which I’ve been meaning to watch).
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