Targets (1968) [The Criterion Collection]

Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Writer: Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt, Samuel Fuller
Stars: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh

Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.

Extras:
- New 4K digital master, supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich
- New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater
- Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich
- Audio excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt at the American Film Institute
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing