Lee J. Cobb is a Homicide Detective having an affair with married socialite Jane Wyatt when a murder tangles them both in a cover-up that unravels in this forgotten film noir.
It may seem like cliché now but ‘Psycho’ was the granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho-thrillers and thrilled audiences with its shocking twists and tawdry details.
George Cukor entered Hitchcock territory with this shadowy tale of suspense and madness set in the gas-lit glow and cobblestone quaintness of Victorian London. The film also inspired the term “gaslighting.”
The meditative and metaphysical horror cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa made him one of the masters of modern Japanese horror. This haunting tale is one of his greatest works, perhaps his best.
