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Impulse (1974)

Directed by William Grefe (Mako: The Jaws of Death)

Matt Stone (William Shatner) is a paranoid, con-man and gigolo who seduces lonely women and then bilks them of their savings using an investment scam... then he kills them.

"It's a sleaze classic." - Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Video Guide

"Certain actors loom so large in our personal mythology that we know them by one name.  Think Garbo, Bogart, Cagney, and yes - Shatner.  A lot of people put down Shatner's acting, but he's never boring to watch.  Here, he puts on an acting clinic, playing a murderous psychopath constantly on the verge of exploding." - Lars Nilsen, Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of The American Genre Film Archive

"If Captain Kirk couldn't be trusted, America was really in trouble." - Stephen Thrower, Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents

Impulse is a tawdry, grindhouse exploitation film about a maniacal murderer possessed by evil demons.   

Directed by legendary exploitation filmmaker William Grefé (The Death Curse of Tartu), and co-starring Jenifer Bishop (Al Adamson’s The Female Bunch), Ruth Roman (Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train), Harold 'Oddjob' Sakata (Goldfinger), and William Kerwin (Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Feast). Impulse is the absolute nadir of Shatner's acting career and consequently has become a camp classic and a must see for fans of Shatner.  Presented in a beautiful new master lovingly restored in 4K from rare archival 35mm film elements. 

When the demons of evil take all the power of reason... he killed on impulse.