{"id":42340,"date":"2026-08-01T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42340"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:35:35","slug":"slayground-1983-starring-peter-coyote-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42340","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Slayground&#8221; (1983) starring Peter Coyote \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z080126zview_slayground.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Slayground\u00a0 <\/i>(1983)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Terry Bedford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Trevor Preston; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4wCdKEq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SLAYGROUND<\/a> by <strong>Richard Stark<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Peter Coyote, Mel Smith, Billie Whitelaw<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Welcome to Your Funeral<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stone is a career criminal.\u00a0 He&#8217;s ready to walk away from his next planned armed robbery because his regular getaway driver is unavailable.\u00a0 Stone&#8217;s partner has another wheelman for the job and convinces Stone to go through it.<\/p>\n<p>Big mistake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new driver is inexperienced.\u00a0 During the getaway, he causes a crash that kills a nine-year-old girl.\u00a0 The girl&#8217;s father is a millionaire.\u00a0 He hires a hitman to find and murder the men responsible for his daughter&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>The killer is relentless and the girl&#8217;s father has money to pay whatever the cost.\u00a0 When Stone learns there is a price on his head, he goes on the run.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no where he can hide.\u00a0 The killer is closing in.<\/p>\n<p>Stone&#8230; <em>welcome to your funeral<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Slayground<\/em> is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Stark (Donald Westlake).\u00a0 Except for the title, little else from Stark&#8217;s novel makes it onscreen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the film was released I thought it was another killer at a carnival movie.\u00a0 Years later I learned it was based on the Parker novels by Richard Stark.\u00a0 So I gave it a go only to find out it had little to do with the Stark&#8217;s novel.\u00a0 Meh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Slayground\u00a0 <\/i>(1983)<\/strong> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z080126zview_slayground2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slayground\u00a0 (1983) Director:\u00a0 Terry Bedford Screenplay: Trevor Preston; 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