Anything and everything Alfred Hitchcock touched is the pinnacle of film making. The moment when Mother’s skull is superimposed on Norman Bates’ face still gives me the creeps every time even though I’ve seen Psycho dozens of times. Bernard Hermann’s soundtrack is half the genius as well.
Eastwood’s Play Misty For Me. Terrifying because …
Anything and everything Alfred Hitchcock touched is the pinnacle of film making. The moment when Mother’s skull is superimposed on Norman Bates’ face still gives me the creeps every time even though I’ve seen Psycho dozens of times. Bernard Hermann’s soundtrack is half the genius as well.
Eastwood’s Play Misty For Me. Terrifying because it’s completely capable of happening.
The scene in The Road where they go into the cannibals’ meat locker/dungeon are one of the scariest moments in film for me, again because it’s another thing that could actually occur.
I think it was the inspiration for Fatal Attraction. Funny how people at the time thought that movie was so original; no it was heavily derivative and Misty did it first.
Fetal Attraction, as I called it. Lilith versus Eve again, the real conflict being -- not between man and woman -- but between two kinds of woman. That's why feminists hated it.
Anything and everything Alfred Hitchcock touched is the pinnacle of film making. The moment when Mother’s skull is superimposed on Norman Bates’ face still gives me the creeps every time even though I’ve seen Psycho dozens of times. Bernard Hermann’s soundtrack is half the genius as well.
Eastwood’s Play Misty For Me. Terrifying because it’s completely capable of happening.
The scene in The Road where they go into the cannibals’ meat locker/dungeon are one of the scariest moments in film for me, again because it’s another thing that could actually occur.
( Shudders )
“Play Misty for Me”—good choice!
I think it was the inspiration for Fatal Attraction. Funny how people at the time thought that movie was so original; no it was heavily derivative and Misty did it first.
Fetal Attraction, as I called it. Lilith versus Eve again, the real conflict being -- not between man and woman -- but between two kinds of woman. That's why feminists hated it.
Love that movie