It may seem like cliché now but ‘Psycho’ was the granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho-thrillers and shocked audiences with its shocking twists and tawdry details.
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Blu-ray: ‘Into the Night’ – Neon noir from Shout! Factory
Into the Night (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray) After the 1970s recast film noir in shades of nostalgia (Chinatown, 1974, The Late Show, 1977) and private eye revisionism and cynicism (The Long Goodbye, 1973, Night Moves, 1975), the eighties gave it a burst of color and energy with Neon Noir. John Landis’s Into the Night (1985) doesn’t […]
‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’: The master of small screen suspense on Netflix and Hulu
“Good eeeeevening.” The master of suspense turned himself into an unlikely media icon when he spoofed his image to play host of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, an otherwise dark half-hour anthology series of mystery, suspense, and grim retribution with an often wicked streak. But more than just host, Hitchcock directed a number of episodes of the […]