"...In Their Blood and from the Gutter."
Spike Lee's Summer of Sam is easily one of the greatest, most electrifying and engrossing movies of the last twenty-plus years. It's a raw, violent, bloody wound of a picture, detailing the tailspin of broken lives, self-destructive, tortured relationships, and criminal underworlds all converging against a backdrop of the long, brutal, burning summer of 1977, NYC, which was stalked intermittently but with increasing desperation and terror by a lone, .44 caliber-wielding serial slayer: the intensely schizophrenic David Berkowitz.
