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Director Paul Schrader has admitted to being drawn to personal and moral dichotomies in his work; small wonder he came to make this starkly comic exploration of
Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, a man whose sexual obsessions led him to become something of a porno pioneer, documenting his exploits in voluminous home videos. Longtime David Lynch musical collaborator Angelo Badalamenti seems the perfect scoring choice, and here he turns from his usual stark, brooding soundscapes to indulge in some jazzy lounge sleaze, music whose garish-yet-hollow nature seems to perfectly echo Crane's collapsing soul. Buster Poindexter imparts suitably reptilian charm to the composer's tone-setting "Snap" (with lyrics by Schrader), while the remaining source material veers from the '60s proto-garage psych-punk of the Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" and the crude, rambunctious R&B of "Psycho" by the Sonics to kitschy, thematic chestnuts like the O'Kaysians' "(I'm a) Girl Watcher," Barbara Mason's "Yes I'm Ready," a lugubrious take on "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)" by King Cotton, and even Clem Snide's obscure, alt-rock-oriented "A Song for Bob Crane."
--Jerry McCulley
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