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oiseaux morts 1994 posted:Whistle and I'll Come To You So anyway, seeing it mentioned in the same post, I tracked down The Woman In Black. Thank you thank you thank you. It's a bit of a slow start but it becomes everything I love in a good ghost story.  This was my favourite moment. She takes two steps toward him in closeup, and then it cuts to this wider shot with her in the background where she is ever-so-slightly hunched over in an incredibly menacing way, getting ready to chase him down. The camera follows Kidd as he takes off and we don't see her again for quite some time, but this last, fleeting image of her hunched silhouette haunts every single subsequent shot to the point where I was dreading each time a door opened or a corner was turned. What a great little movie. Why can't made-for-TV stuff be this good anymore? I also tracked down the adaptation of James' A Warning to the Curious. I wasn't as taken with it as I was with Whistle, but it had some great moments, and some terrific shots as well. I thought it would have benefitted from Whistle's B&W cinematography but this long shot of the murderer on the hill will stay with me for a while:  Great stuff. Thanks again!
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echoplex posted:For years I thought the appearing in the bedroom scare was the ending, so the lake scene was a good surprise. Here's my suggestion:  John Brahm's The Lodger, from 1944, a remake of Hitchcock's original (which I have not seen). It's an account - fictional, obviously - of the infamous Jack the Ripper. It features a stunning central performance from an actor named Laird Cregar, who was only 29 (and who died within a year) but his ability to so convincingly play well beyond his years reminds me of Orson Welles. It's got a great atmosphere and the feeling of dread sets in almost immediately. Cregar brings a maddening sense of humanity to the role; you desperately hope he hasn't done the things you suspect him of. The b&w photography is perfect. It reminds me of Fritz Lang's M, actually, both visually and thematically (although, now that I think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if Lang had seen the original Hitchcock film, so who knows what influenced what, if at all).      Also, Merle Oberon, <3 
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