Finally got around to watching my DVD of Rene Cardona, Jr’s 1979 opus Carlos the Terrorist today. Loosely based on the life of notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal, I expected it to be another inept but enjoyable trash-fest from the South American filmmaker and director of sleazy genre faves like Tintorera (1977) and Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979). However, I wasn’t expecting it to be as strangely surreal as it was, considering there is literally no dialogue throughout the entire film, the only voices heard being those of a narrator and occasional voice-overs from the lead character as he reads instructions left for him to follow. Great weird stuff, well worth the $5.00 I paid for the DVD (came on a double-sided disc with Guyana: Crime of the Century).
