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ABSOLUTE HORROR
by Jon (movies profile)
Mar 12, 2006
This is the most shocking horror film made before Pyscho in 1960. Beginning with an architect's visit to a country farmhouse for tea and a consultation, the film at first seems so civilized and witty that it's difficult to imagine the reality behind it. Frederick Valk plays a psychiatrist who represents everything that is rational, and he explains the recurring dream of the architect (Mervyn Johns) as if it has perfectly reasonable and harmless explanations. But he's fatally wrong, and when we see what's really happening we're trapped inside a terror so great it is almost unbearable. Outstanding performances by Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and others, this is a film to be watched again and again for the discovery of the many ways the directors (there are four of them) manage to give each of the several stories told in this extraordinary film a terrifying spin. Nothing approaches this before Hitchcock. |
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