The last film of Boris Karloff was one of his best: TARGETS directed by Peter Bogdanovich

Karloff's last film was Bogdanovich's first. The film was genre changing and brought horror up to date. What role did Polly Platt play in this film and in Peter's career?

After the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy the film TARGETS was released to audiences and critics who did not want to see a film about random sniper killings. Polly Platt, Bogdanovich’s partner in creating the production said," Modern horror was unmotivated horror.”, and although the film was a flop the horror genre door was open to the slasher films of the 70’s and 80’s. This sense of unmotivated horror owes more to TARGETS than PSYCHO does- which is not unmotivated at all.

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As an Oscar-nominated production designer, screenwriter, producer and executive who put her stamp on some of the greatest and most loved films of the 1970s and 80s – including Paper Moon, Bad News Bears, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, The Witches of Eastwick and more—Polly Platt had a major impact on the careers of Barbra Streisand, Tatum O’Neal, Garry Marshall, Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson. She also lived an epic Hollywood life off-screen; her personal life was the stuff of a Great American Novel, full of romances, heartbreak, alcoholism and the challenges of adapting to cataclysmic cultural change as an independent, professional woman – and single mom. And yet, despite all of this, if you know Polly Platt’s name today, it’s probably because, in 1970, her husband and creative collaborator Peter Bogdanovich had an affair with Cybill Shepherd while shooting the film that made both Bogdanovich and Shepherd major stars of their era, The Last Picture Show. But Platt was much more than a jilted wife: she was the secret, often invisible-to-the-public weapon behind some of the most loved American “auteur” films (many of them comedies, directed by men) of the last decades of the 20th century.

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When Bogdanovich and Platt began working with independent filmmaker Roger Corman, he promised to finance their first movie, but with a few stipulations. He needed them to make something out of a film he recently shot with Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson called The Terror. Additionally, Corman required they use Karloff for two more days of shooting. The actor owed him a few more hours of work from a previous project. These stipulations might have been enough to dissuade less determined artists, but Platt and Bogdanovich were eager to create something of their own. With such limitations, they created something new. - Film School Rejects

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Karloff and Peter Bogdanovich

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