#Sonnyboy

I don't know how the hell this one got past me for so long, but yesterday I watched a good one called Sonny Boy (1989). Brad Dourif plays a guy named Weasel who murders a married couple and steals their car, not knowing he's taken their baby with him. He drives out to the desert where he offers the car and everything in it to his scumbag crime boss with severe anger issues, played by Bluto from that Popeye movie with Robin Williams. Bluto is furious to discover the baby and beats the shit out of Brad Dourif while Bluto's girlfriend, played by fucking David Carradine, decides she's the baby's new mother. Bluto wants to kill the baby, but his old lady ain't having it. After several shouting matches over what to do about this baby, Bluto decides to take control of the situation and becomes the baby's father and pretty much call the shots on what to do with him. Over the next 17 years, they torture the poor kid as a way of building their own vicious, tough-as-nails assassin, even going so far as to cut his tongue out on his 6th birthday just to make sure Sonny boy never incriminates them in any way. What they create is closer to a wild animal than a person. But of course, he eventually gets loose, bringing on quite the ordeal for Bluto and the gang. Highly recommended! 7/10