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Posts Tagged "psychiatrist"

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Alone in the Dark ** (1982, Donald Pleasence, Jack Palance, Martin Landau) – Classic Movie Review 12,395

A power failure frees four mental asylum inmates, who then run amok and try to kill their psychiatrist director (Donald Pleasence) and his family, in Jack Sholder’s 1982 debut film Alone in the Dark. Co-writer/ […]

Jan, 16

Phobia 1980 (Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, Susan Hogan, Alexandra Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 12,286

The Canadian-made 1980 horror-thriller Phobia – one of great director John Huston’s few misfires – is about a psychiatrist (Paul Michael Glaser) whose phobia-struck test subjects are being systematically bumped off. Dr Peter Ross (Glaser) […]

Aug, 22

The Full Treatment * (1960, Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Braden) – Classic Movie Review 11,932

Producer-director Val Guest’s 1960 British thriller The Full Treatment [Stop Me Before I Kill!] is a contrived and unbelievable Riviera-set yarn about suave, philandering psychiatrist David Prade (Claude Dauphin) making disturbed British racing driver Alan […]

Feb, 14

Blind Alley **** (1939, Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 11,813

Director Charles Vidor’s 1939 black and white Columbia Pictures film Blind Alley is a trail-blazing psychoanalysis film-noir thriller, about murderously tough hood Hal Wilson (Chester Morris) busting loose from jail and hiding out with a […]

Dec, 28

Night Hair Child (1972, Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Kruger, Harry Andrews, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 11,797

Director James Kelley’s 1972 horror thriller film Night Hair Child [What the Peeper Saw] [Diabólica Malicia] stars Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Kruger, Harry Andrews, and Lilli Palmer. Stepmother Elise (Ekland)’s sweet-seeming 12-year-old schoolboy stepson Marcus […]

Dec, 17

They Might Be Giants *** (1971, George C Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford, Rue McClanahan) – Classic Movie Review 11,495

The 1972 cult film They Might Be Giants is a fantasy comedy about judge Justin Playfair (George C Scott), who retreats into fantasy on his wife’s death and thinks he is Sherlock Holmes, looked after […]

Aug, 19

Conspiracy Theory ** (1997, Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 11,378

Director Richard Donner’s 1997 American political action thriller Conspiracy Theory stars Mel Gibson as an eccentric New York cab driver, Jerry Fletcher, convinced that every event, object and coincidence warns of conspiracy, and that he is the […]

Jul, 10

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