Bruce Willis is back, baby, in a reimagining of Death Wish, the wildly controversial 1974 classic starring Charles Bronson.
Special advanced screenings of the new Death Wish will play across the country on Monday, March 5, in a collaboration between MONSTER FEST and Event Cinemas.
Dr Paul Kersey (Willis) is a surgeon whose wife and college-age daughter are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With police resources stretched, Paul, thirsty for justice, takes the law into his own hands and slays criminals left, right and centre.
The new film has some serious talent attached. The director is horror maestro Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) and the writer is Joe Carnahan (The Grey, Smokin’ Aces). And of course there’s the excellent bald head of Bruce ‘Die Hard, Harder, Hardest, Not Hard Enough’ Willis.
The original film caused a stir when it was first released in the 70s, sparking debate about the perceived pro-violence and pro-vigilante elements of the story.
Critic Mark Steyn, writing for The Spectator, described Death Wish as “a remarkable social artefact, a valuable record of the day before yesterday – 1974 – when New York and many other American cities seemed in large part ungovernable.”
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