I Watch FIlms: Shadow Of The Hawk

 

Shadow Of The Hawk

Old Man Hawk (Chief Dan George the same year he was in The Outlaw Josey Wales), a First Nations medicine man, travels to Vancouver to ask his grandson Mike (Jan-Michael Vincent in pre-Airwolf days) to come back with him. On the way he falls ill, due to magic, and Maureen (Marilyn Hassett who I regret to say is unknown to me previously), a freelance journalist chasing a story at the hospital sees him being treated for severe illness, then shortly afterwards leaving, apparently okay. Mike doesn’t want to go with him, despite having visions, as he has a high-powered computer job and a groovy 70s party going on at his pad. But he does, Maureen joining them for some reason.

Out on the road they’re followed by a mysterious car, then their car goes wrong and tries to drive off a cliff. Mike undergoes a spirit-quest-type of experience, fighting a hawk man and coming to terms with his medicine man heritage. Old Man Hawk is gnomic and oblique, and Maureen is there to have things explained to her.

Watch This: For a horror road trip with plenty of Canadian wilderness
Don’t Watch This: It’s both incoherent and predictable