Sisters (1972)
The start of Brian De Palma’s “I’m just going to keep making Psycho” period, Sisters sees journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) investigating the case of a corpse folded into a […]
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Don’t Look Now
First released in 1973 to give an entire generation a phobia of red raincoats, Don’t Look Now is restored in all its squirmy, permy glory. Based on Daphne du Maurier’s short […]
Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close goes hopping mad in the thriller that spawned countless copycats and the expression “bunny boiler,” while the word “myxomapsychosis” sadly never caught on. Fatal Attraction isn’t the first […]
Greta
Chloë Grace Moretz is stalked by Isabelle Huppert in Neil Jordan’s Greta, AKA FatElle Attraction. At his best the Crying Game director is a filmmaker unconstrained by genre trappings, which […]
Dark Water
Given the multitude of movies about writers, journalists and even publishers, it’s nice to see a film about a proofreader for a change considering they’re just as impotant. This 2002 […]
Deep Red
A pianist (David Hemmings) witnesses a brutal murder in 1975 giallo Deep Red, which would technically make orange. Directed by Dario Argento with another progtastic score by Goblin, Deep Red […]
Alice, Sweet Alice
A withdrawn 12-year-old (Paula Sheppard) becomes the prime suspect when her younger sister (Brooke Shields) is murdered during her first communion, in Alice, Sweet Alice – AKA Communion, Holy Terror and Feather Ded. OK I […]
Single White Female
Single White Female is a 1992 thriller about a New York woman (Bridget Fonda) whose new flatmate (Jennifer Jason Leigh) turns out to be the roommate from hell. And I don’t mean she steals […]
Dressed to Kill
Michael Caine plays a psychiatrist who grows concerned when his female patients start being murdered. When a lazy New York detective (Dennis Franz) fails to get to the bottom of […]
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