Posts Tagged ‘suspense’

the Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)

February 11, 2009

le Locataire
FR, 126 min

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Paranoia, neighbors, suicides, menacing apartment building, drab ’70s interior design…  I don’t need much else, personally. GOOD TENSE FUN, plus Polanski-as-actor bonus.

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Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)

January 29, 2009

USA, 107 min


buy rock hudson’s face!
it only costs thirty grand
… they wasted your chance

reel: “Dark, harrowing, Kafka-esque allegory chronicles middle-aged man’s attempt to escape boring, loveless life via conspiratorial organization’s “rebirth” program. This overlooked ’60s masterpiece is a sleeper for fans of non-mainstream psychological horror.”

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Perfomance (Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg, 1970)

January 23, 2009

UK, 104 min


http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=5941

Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

January 22, 2009

tension-fraught classic!
apparently scheduled for
’09 remake; yecch.

reel :: wiki ::  imdb

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