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12 Angry Men is one of those films that is set in very few locations, or even just only one. They demand far more tension than other films. 12 Angry Men takes place almost entirely in a single room. I say “almost” because the beginning and the end don’t quite happen there. The film begins with a trial that has just concluded, and the jury is given its instructions. They are to gather in a...
Classic Novel There’s something special about reading a classic novel like The Three Musketeers that everyone is supposed to have read, though evidently, not everyone has. Books like this one, where the plot is so well-known that it’s almost obligated knowledge to be familiar with it. But how many of us have actually read it? How many of us can proudly say that we have that experience? How many of us can be proud to...
I got comments on the first episode of my YouTube series “History of Horror” that Körkarlen aka The Phantom Carriage should have been mentioned and it wasn’t. I thought about it for a while and came to the conclusion that the criticism might be correct. Maybe I should have mentioned it as a piece of early horror history? But I wasn’t too familiar with it. It was a long time since I saw it and...
Apparently, the infamous Marquis wrote this story in 37 days while being imprisoned in the Bastille 1785. Furthermore, the 120 Days of Sodom was written on a 12-meter-long roll of paper smuggled into the prison. You can say what you want about its content and about the Marquis himself. You may call him a lunatic and dismiss his work as perverted nonsense but you cannot say that anyone reads this book without emotion. 15-20 pages...
Gaslight is one of the very few movies I once was recommended to see by my mother. This was back in the eighties I guess and I utterly enjoyed it. Now, many years later I finally got hold of it on DVD. Not that I’ve searched for it very hard, but I have felt the urge to revisit it from time to time. Now I got hold of an Italian edition of it, apparently with...
You know when pwople ask you which is you all time favorite and you cannot answer since it’s too much going on in you head? Well, this is mine! 🙂
