Showing posts with label Joan Bennett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joan Bennett. Show all posts
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Sunday, 16 December 2018
Suspiria (1977)
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Quintessential Dario Argento masterpiece is all style, atmosphere and dread over plot with a slew of set pieces often copied ever since.
Halliwell**: "Psycho meets The Exorcist, with no holds barred: a genuinely scary thriller with gaudy visuals and a screaming sound track. A pyrotechnic display for those who can take it."
Maltin***: "Terrifying tale...Often dumb plot is enriched and overcome by brilliant camerawork, atmosphere, music score and performance..."
Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Thursday, 17 December 2015
The Woman in the Window (1944)
When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance
with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of
blackmail and murder.
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
13 Hours by Air (1936)
Personal problems and a blizzard beset passengers of a plane heading from New York to the West Coast.
Friday, 4 September 2015
Hollow Triumph (1948)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, a criminal takes a new identity, with ironic results.
An unnecessarily contrived plot mars an otherwise OK thriller with a good cast and some Noir elements.
Halliwell (no star): "Cheap suspense thriller with no suspense and no surprises."
Saturday, 25 July 2015
Monday, 20 July 2015
Man Hunt (1941)
A British hunter vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun
sight, but he is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London
where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Sunday, 12 April 2015
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