Socially Distant, self isolated and sheltered in place.
I walked into Eyes Without a Face with high expectations. Maybe it was the the badass title? Maybe it was the compelling premise? Maybe it was a half remembered quote … Continue Reading Eyes Without a Face (1960) October 13th, 2020
Ah, mermaid horror, too weird to live too rare to die. The Lure is a loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid fairytale set in modern Poland. Two mermaid sisters venture … Continue Reading The Lure (2015) October 12th, 2020
I love monster movies. Monsters actually created The List. Back then my wife and I decided to watch every movie in the Universal Monsters catalog. At the time a 30 … Continue Reading The Blob (1958) October 12th, 2020
SPOILERS!!! Carnival of Souls is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge story. If you don’t know what that means then you should get off Facebook and go watch The Twilight … Continue Reading Carnival of Souls (1962) October 4th, 2020
Diabolique is a fantastic film with a simple premise. An abused wife (Véra Clouzot) and her husband’s mistress (Simone Signoret) plot his murder. The film is set in a run-down … Continue Reading Diabolique (1954) October 2nd, 2020
The most important aspect of my fledgling quest through cinema history is accepting how many films I’ve never seen and experiencing as many as possible. I hadn’t seen a single … Continue Reading A Ship to India (1947) September 10th, 2020
I still haven’t seen Psycho, North by Northwest, or Rope. I haven’t seen enough Hitchcock to make an unequivocal declaration, but for my money, Rebecca is his best work. I … Continue Reading Rebecca (1940) July 13th, 2020
The July 2020 Barnes and Noble 50% off Criterion Collection sale is in full swing. I’ve added to my collection like a good sycophant and will review the new acquisitions … Continue Reading Judex (1963) July 11th, 2020
I haven’t watched a new movie in the seventeen days since seeing Detour. It’s taken that long to decide what to say. There’s no aspect of Detour worth overlooking, and … Continue Reading Detour (1945) June 24th, 2020
Of all the words that appropriately describe la Belle et la Bête none more succinctly encapsulates its jaw-dropping perfection than beautiful. Of course it’s an etherial, atmospheric and magical fantasy … Continue Reading le Belle et la Bête (1946) June 20th, 2020
I’ve had nothing but difficulty in trying to come up with something to say about Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 melodramatic spy romance Notorious that’s worth saying. It’s one of those movies … Continue Reading Notorious (1946) June 2nd, 2020
Crisis is a film about learning harsh lessons firsthand. A young woman raised in a provincial town by a surrogate mother moves to the city to work in a shop … Continue Reading Crisis (1946) May 22nd, 2020
In my last review I brazenly compared The Uninvited to Scooby-Doo, which in retrospect now feels like a challenge too tempting for the cinema gods to ignore. As luck would … Continue Reading One Body Too Many (1944) April 25th, 2020
Lewis Allen’s 1944 horror The Uninvited, is a near perfect haunted house movie. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and want to avoid spoiling your enjoyment by over explaining the plot … Continue Reading The Uninvited (1944) April 20th, 2020
As I write this we’re in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic. Despite calling this blog ‘The Quarantined Critic’ it’s a subject I’ve neglected because it doesn’t often come up … Continue Reading Things to Come (1936) April 15th, 2020
I really like 39 Steps. It’s one of the best overall pictures I’ve seen from Hitchcock’s British period. The poster for Young and Innocent (retitled to The Girl Was Young) … Continue Reading Young and Innocent (1937) April 12th, 2020
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