A cult film about a killer with an obsession over a woman in a circus setting. Alonzo, the guy's name, and his extra-ordinary use of his feet is a reason alone to watch the film but it has more to say, specially regarding obsession and what unknown levels it can reach. Lon Chaney, the actor, is also the phantom of the opera.
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The Phantom of the Opera 1925
This is the first film adaptation of this story. It is an interesting story of one-sided love and an iconic monster in its center. It was scary for its time but I feel it withstood the passing of time to an even lesser degree when compared to other films of that era. The sound, music parts and opera, added often feels to me like not matching the scenes, or not perfectly to say the least. The best part of the…
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Häxan 1922
This is a unique piece, it attempts to be an academic research style proto-documentary on Witchcraft (interpreting it with Freudian terms as mass hysteria) and at the same time it creates some imagined story-lines. It is a bit slow at times and the ending attempts to make suggestions that are interesting though somewhat arbitrary or ad hoc. Generally it has an anti-priestly tone to it that I like a lot. This is the first of the early films that have some genuinely unsettling imagery and some that will appear in classics like the Exorcist a lot later.
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Angst 1983
Αυστριακό χόρορ/θρίλερ εμπνευσμένο απο την πραγματική ιστορία ενός ψυχοπαθούς δολοφόνου που έδρασε την δεκαετία του 70 και με τη χρονιά 1980 να είναι η πιο σημαδιακή και στα γεγονότα της οποίας επικεντρώνει η ταινία.
Έχει ιδιαίτερη κάμερα η ταινία, αφού ακολουθεί σχεδόν αποκλειστικά τον δολοφόνο και αυτό σε συνδιασμό με το ότι ως θεατές ακούμε την αφήγηση του ίδιου δίνει στο έργο μια αίσθηση διαφορετική, σα να είμαστε όχι μόνο μέσα στο μυαλό του αλλά και μαζί του, σχεδόν συνένοχοι.…
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