Quote from hcour:
Roger Corman directed "Pit and the Pendulum", lad. Not really Hitch's style; not very subtle, you know? It creeped me out as a kid, but I suspect it would not hold up well on a viewing as an adult.
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What the-huh?
Well,there goes my credibility, funny you should mention it-i would not have seen it, except we were forced to watch it, at school.
Yes, at school. Had to write an essay about it.
Sure, it creeped me out, but in a meaningful, distrurbing way-the very nature of torture, humanity, all sorts of fun stuff.
Far different, to the blood soaked horrorfest nightmares that accompanied watching the shining, heres a tip to any parents-never, under any circumstances, have red curtains in your house.
Just dont, ok? asking for trouble.
Sure, ive seen such classics as "the hand" (a micheal caine entry level c grade movie)and "the birds" since, but its largely because the cinematography was so sparse, indeed, the acting so bad, that they were able to carry such a haunting presence, as nothing more than a movie.
Of COURSE they wouldn't stand up now, and thats a shame i think-the genre itself has become, somehow, a diseased, sick, to-close-to life-parody, i find that a totally f*cked up aspect of people, and society, that crime drama's and slasher flick's (yes, including freddy krueger etc) should earn anything more than overwhelming condemnation.