Badlands

USA 1973, 95 minutes
Dir. Terrence Malick
Rating: [M]
Genres: Classics, Suspense/Crime / Youth

Topics: Period 1950s.

Aroview: Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are a knock-out as deluded teenage fugitives who chalk up a hefty body count as they flee across country. Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the '50s.

Criterion Collection Blu-Ray includes a 2019 HD restoration overseen by Director Malick.

Member Reviews

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5 stars (Exceptional) not particularly ambitious, but i think the most perfectly constructed film, and unnervingly funny ~artsfiend
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5 stars (Exceptional) Before Malick got too ponderous. ~Regando

DVD Features

- Making of Featurette with Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek and Art Director Jack Fisk - Criterion Only
- Interviews from 2012 with associate editor Billy Weber and executive producer Edward Pressman - Criterion Only
- “Charles Starkweather,” a 1993 episode of the television program American Justice, about the real-life story on which the film was loosely based - Criterion Only.