The film starts on the day of his release. Self-Made Orphan: Johnny beat his father to death with a baseball bat, and then spent the next 17 years of his life in an asylum for the criminally.Peekaboo Corpse: Terry and Carl are startled when they discover Billy's corpse hanging from the ceiling in the tunnels under the ballpark.Even more remarkable, he hoists Carl up using his injured arm. Neck Lift: Johnny does this to Carl after he catches him in the corridor.Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Anthony and his girlfriend decide to have sex on the ball field.Improvised Weapon: Coach Foster stabs the killer in the shoulder with the screwdriver he had been using to adjust the pitching machine.Generic Doomsday Villain: No real reason is ever given for why Johnny is killing people, we're simply left to assume that his father's abuse has made him hate baseball so much that he feels compelled to murder anyone who plays it.The camera pulls back to reveal Beth who had been knocked unconscious and stuffed into a washing machine earlier in the film.
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Batter Up!: Unsurprisingly for a baseball-themed serial killer, the Catcher uses a baseball bat as his primary weapon.Ball Cannon: Coach Foster is murdered by being strung up in front of a pitching machine and pummeled with baseballs.Said bat had "Will You Marry Me?" written on it. Ass Shove: Billy is killed by being taped to a bench and having a baseball bat shoved up his ass.Johnny snaps and beats his dad to death with a baseball bat. Abusive Parents: Johnny's father is a 'Sports Dad': driving his son so hard to be perfect in baseball that it reaches the point of physical abuse.17 years later, Johnny is released from the local insane asylum and begins a killing spree, with his father's ghost as an umpire. In Taft, California, 1981, Johnny is an unassuming baseball hopeful who turned against his stern and demanding father and beat him to death with a baseball bat on a baseball diamond field. Oscar-nominated Field was attached to write and direct the adaptation.The Catcher is a 1998 horror film directed by Guy Crawford and Yvette Hoffman. Netflix, initially one of several interested buyers, acquired the rights to the film and premiered it as an Original Documentary on July 11, 2014.Īfter a bidding war between Fox Searchlight, Columbia Pictures, and DreamWorks, filmmaker Justin Lin acquired the rights to adapt the documentary into a feature film. The film premiered to a standing ovation at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2014. The film also features Todd Field, who was a batboy for the Mavericks, Frank “The Flake” Peters, Joe Garza, Jim Bouton, and Joe Garagiola. The film features Russell's son Kurt Russell, who played for the Mavericks and worked as a vice president. The film was directed by Chapman Way and Maclain Way, grandsons of Russell. Owned by actor Bing Russell, the Mavericks were independent of Major League Baseball teams, despite competing in a league of teams with MLB affiliates.
The Battered Bastards of Baseball is a 2014 documentary film about the Portland Mavericks, a defunct Minor League Baseball team which operated from 1973 through 1977.
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