Corman gets a good cast of venerable
characters, among them Frank Silvera, Joseph Campanella, Richard Bakalyan, Harold J. Stone, Joe Turkel, John Agar, Reed Hadley, Alex Rocco, and Leo Gordon, and adds in a
few of his favorites, including Bruce Dern in a
sympathetic role as an earnest mechanic just trying to support his family and unbilled appearances by Dick Miller and Jack Nicholson.
It features a
few briefly sketched but still
sympathetic characters who we feel a tinge of grief when they're snuffed, but the film's obvious and frivolous attempts to turn the original's psychological terror into a series of well - executed but hollow set pieces for mass consumption is unfortunate.
Maybe not quite as large since Sansa is probably viewed as the more
sympathetic character, despite how many people disliked her in the first
few seasons, but an outrage nonetheless.