Directed by John Carpenter The term "serial killer" didn't exist when Halloween first came out. So yeah, there had never really been anything quite like Michael Myers before he showed up. There had been ghosts and ghouls, zombies and aliens, even the perhaps slightly more human antagonists of the occult (Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist) but there had … Continue reading Halloween (1978)
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They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (2018)
Directed by Morgan Neville Morgan Neville has had quite the year, and the subjects of his two 2018 documentaries, this and Won't You Be My Neighbor? couldn't be more different. One was Mr. Rogers, the man you wish was your grandpa, and the other is Orson Welles. This documentary chronicles the struggle for Welles to finish … Continue reading They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (2018)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Shadow of a Doubt, like Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), is about the deconstruction of myth, to some extent. They are similar films, following one character's increasing paranoia that someone they love is a monster. In the former, Joan Fontaine begins to worry that the man she married, played by Cary Grant, has … Continue reading Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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