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besides the obvious Rear Window storyline, all of the following in this movie are also signature Hitchcockian themes or devices . . . the sudden overhead shots during interiors for dialog transitions; the use of shadows (the darkness and the light); the wrongly persecuted (Stanwyck) trying to prove the truth; the inept police wanting to incarcerate the innocent person; the average working-class Joe (or Josephine) getting thrown into a sinister web by no fault of their own; the dramatically different stories within each rear window, i mean each door in the apt.
This Grade B film offers a rare opportunity to see the underused Anna May Wong in a lead role as a noted Chinese dancer on tour in London who also happens to be the daughter of the sinister Fu Manchu.
This whole thing probably started as a bad joke among friends in a sinister bar and after having too much to drink already?
She stands to inherit the family mansion, but sinister Byron, her other uncle (played by Robert Vaughn, who must have needed money in a bad way).
But the adventure is just starting for the Professor, his daughter and harpooner Ned Land when they are washed overboard and picked up by the mysterious and sinister Captain Nemo in a futuristic submarine.
I saw Martin Murphy's film "lost thing's" last night because I love thriller's and horror and have been wanting to see some from other countries.I was impressed and watched it twice to understand it better.The beach was beautiful and the soundtrack eerie with the background sounds.The fact that the beach was empty with no other people except an older guy who was preaching doom, and only had snakes and sinister looking birds on it was unsettling.
There is something vaguely disturbing and sinister about this film that it makes it that much more erotic.
There are some clowns thrown in, which always gives a film a sinister edge, and lots of homoerotic undertones(or is that overtones?).
It does not have a very suspenseful plot, it is not very gory, but there is something sinister and even humorous about the series of events that make this a truly bizarre movie.
O'Bannon & Ted team up, after some investigations they uncover sinister military experiments, conspiracies, lies, murder & an egotistical madman who wants to take over Earth using radio controlled killer cockroaches!
I expected this film to be nothing more than your very average 80s horror flick but it was much more.Admittedly the acting was well below par but the shocks certainly weren't.Any film encorporating clowns in my opinion can't help but be sinister there was no exception here the clown was terrificly scary,and the little girl dressed in white just added to it.The film also boasted some rather gruesome deaths especially the guillotine!This movie certainly surpassed its expectations.Deserves to be seen.
The masterfully shot sinister landscapes also made me real nervous.
You see, she's a Puritanical girl who shudders at the notion of having her womanly plane violated by a sinister male ("Repulsion" again).
Dean Jagger is great as the sinister presence haunting Robert Mitchum.
Experiments funded by the military has a staggering side-effect when the head scientist, Dr. Van Fleet(James Hong)discovers that an alternate universe exists when a subject is induced into a vast, deep sleep..something sinister lies on the other side and uses the subject as a portal into our world.
The plot is thin; a beautiful pianist (Carla Borelli) suffers a minor breakdown and ends up at an old, scary-looking asylum in the country, where she hears sinister chanting and has a number of extremely vivid nightmares.
Lovecraft excruciatingly cultivated sinister and dark atmosphere with climactic punctuations of visual action, almost the opposite of current films that are visually heavy to create the deep and dark unease (something they seldom do because ... perhaps ... they are running a formula in reverse?) ... Dan O'Bannon nearly nailed it with "The Resurrected" from Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
Ernest Borgnine (looking handsomely sinister and--more surprisingly--completely at ease in this B-grade demon western) is appropriately over-the-top as the head demon (or is he the Devil?), Ida Lupino has some nice moments as an elderly lady who gets bewitched, and John Travolta shows up in a couple of scenes as a coven member.
And who could forget that towering, sinister S.O.B.
The atmosphere in this movie is perfectly portrayed as being sinister and dark and I remember being 8 watching this movie and feeling the oppressive feeling of Lord Craven's mansion.
I am all in favour of films to counterbalance the polemics of Michael Moore, but please don't accuse him of manipulating footage and then do exactly that, adding sinister music.
All the while Conway's character talking about the sinister wookilar monster, a creature with a pig head.
The others manage to get the hitchhiker out from the vehicle, but shortly afterwards, they are forced to stop & wander over to a small, sinister looking house nearby in hopes for gas.
With a group of arch characters, some casting sinister side glances, others acting buffoonish, a suspenseless game of Clue commences.
The quest leads him to a very sinister Puerto Rican mafioso (Henry Darrow) and more gunfire than you could imagine.
However I must admit the resolution to "Steel Trap" while it's very simple, is still very good, and very sinister, and for me pretty much made up almost any problem I had with it, to where it is no big deal.
It's good, clean, sinister fun with Joan in control every step of the way.
I saw it the same night as I saw another popular Japanese horror, "The Ring", which curiously also features a well, but I found Gemini much more sinister and frightening.
Sheriff Dobbs (Gregory Lee Kenyon) reveals that Rushford Lake has a dark & sinister past that Rebecca feels is the cause of her troubles.
It was so emotionally & psychologically thrilling, the whole movie is charged with pulse pounding suspense and made so dark & sinister that gives you the tensive mood for the film.
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