...as might have more than likely been the case, as far as anyone else...if this open-minded, cinema-crazed viewer had, back in the golden days of browsing the video rental isles, perchance and out of curiosity, pulled this quirky little drama off the rental shelf, having previously devoured director Pete Walker's better-known excursions...that is, at the time, without really knowing him as a director, by name...which favored much more visceral, exploitative, accentedly sadistic and horrific genre arenas, I may well have shrugged my shoulders, and place the tape back on the shelf...though having taken a chance on the film, I would have been surprisingly taken back at how provocative and equally exploitative the film was, despite the headline-driven dramatic subject matter, which is presented, in 1979's "Home Before Midnight". Hmmm...interestingly enough, this viewer...several years older now, wasn't genuinely privy of Pete Walker's masterfully rendered work until just after the demise of the video store rental, and well into the digital home video inset; having subscribed to the more graphically lurid, provocative, disturbing and blood-spattered of Walker's entourage, I have to gladly reiterate, having recently viewed his abrupt switch towards the more melodramatic, with "Home...", given the particular time of it's initial release, that he most assuredly had not lost his exploitative touch, with this engaging bit of provocative storytelling...
