Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except (1985)

Long out of print, Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except has been a film I have been waiting anxiously to be re-released on DVD and/or blu ray. The great folks at Synapse do even better by releasing a DVD/blu ray package, chock full of extra features. I am thrilled to finally see this low budget, gory action film after all these years and while parts of the film seem much more hokey and silly than what I remembered, the movie still holds up and is a ton of fun to watch.

Shot in super 16, Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except was the brain child of Josh Becker, Scott Spiegel and Bruce Campbell who came up with the idea of Marines vs. the Manson Family while they were wrapping up on The Evil Dead. After directing several shorts (most of which starred Campbell, Spiegel, and Sam & Ted Raimi) Becker decided to take on his Vietnam movie idea and turn it into a short film starring Campbell. The film was Stryker’s War which was an ambitious short that was used to get funding for an actual feature length film which eventually was turned into Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except.


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