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''[[Targets]]'' is a 1968 horror thriller (produced by [[Roger Corman]], directed by Peter Bogdanovich) that focuses on two men in [[Los Angeles]]. One is Byron Orlock ([[Boris Karloff]]), an aging and beloved horror film actor who has announced his decision to retire from film-making, feeling that [[Real Life]] is churning out more and far worse horrors than anything he can hope to put on screen. The other is young Vietnam vet [
A worthy coda for Karloff's career, and a symbolic passing of the torch from one generation of filmmakers to the next.
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* [[Executive Meddling]]: A positive example, in that the film wouldn't have been made in the first place, except Karloff owed the ever-frugal Corman two days of filming; as already noted, Karloff was so impressed with the resulting script, he [[Doing It for The Art|volunteered]] the needed extra shooting time for free.
* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: All of Orlock's scenes are shot in mellow autumnal shades, while Thompson's are cold sterile blues.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The screenwriter Sammy Michaels is played by Bogdanovich himself.
** Mike Farrell, the guy caught in the [[Phone Booth]], went on to play B.J. Hunnicutt in ''[[MASH]]''.
* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Orlock is Karloff with the serial numbers lightly sanded off. Almost counts as an [[As Himself]] trope.
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** During the final shooting spree, Thompson {{spoiler|is unable to determine which Orlock to shoot at - the one onscreen at the drive-in theater or the one [[Paranoia Fuel|coming right at him]].}}
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: The film has no music soundtrack, except for a tune heard on a car radio.
* [[Shout
** The screenwriter's name Sammy Michaels was named for [[Samuel Fuller]], who helped write the film's screenplay.
* [[The Sixties]]
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