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Director Mandie Fletcher’s 1994 British black comedy is a sometimes funny but often uneasy experience, though it comes through with an excellent cast on good form. Jane Horrocks and Imelda Staunton give expert and amusingly oddball […]
The now legendary Louise Brooks thrillingly stars as the fatal charmer Lulu in Austrian director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s dazzling, erotic 1929 German silent melodrama film adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s theatre plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der […]
‘The Hands of Jack the Ripper Live Again… As His Fiendish Daughter Kills Again… And Again…And Again…’ Director Peter Sasdy’s 1971 Hammer Films British chiller Hands of the Ripper stars Angharad Rees as the beautiful […]
Re-creating his role from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent classic, Ivor Novello plays a mysterious stranger who may, or may not, be a Jack the Ripper-style serial killer, in the 1932 British film The Lodger. Ivor […]
Director John Brahm’s thrilling 1944 American Victorian melodrama horror film The Lodger provides a wonderful role for Laird Cregar, who is superb as Mr Slade, the mysterious stranger who finds lodgings in London’s Whitechapel district […]
Stuttgart-born film pioneer Paul Leni’s 1924 German Expressionist feast focuses on a young poet and writer (William Dieterle) who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of gothic stories for Harun al-Rashid […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film version of the famous 1913 novel The Lodger by Mrs Marie Belloc Lowndes is his first thriller, establishing him as a star name director. The Lodger (A Story of the […]