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Most audiences like their thrills fast and simple; hence the horror film. But there are subtler ways to get the creeps; hence the suspense film. In 53 features over 51 years, Alfred Hitchcock imprinted himself so indelibly on that genre that he was known as the Master of Suspense, influencing scare artists on three continents. In the films below, the accents are unique but the frissons are similar. Fear, after all, is a universal language...
...LEWTON HORROR COLLECTION...
...Russian-born Lewton produced, but did not direct, the 10 low-budget films in this long-overdue package. Yet, heading a B-movie unit in the '40s at RKO, he was as much an auteur as Hitchcock. His pictures had horror-movie titles--The Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, I Walked with a Zombie--but they are really suspense films, achieving their thrills through indirection: a shiver of shadow, say, to quicken the heroine's anxiety. Lewton's monsters needed no special effects, for he created them purely in the imaginations...
...Dumplings” is linked with the second segment, “Cut,” by a crunching, slurping, sucking sound that begins as Mrs. Lee eating and becomes the sound of a vampire feeding. The vampire is in a horror movie directed by the main character of the segment, who sets the movie in an apartment that looks just like his house. This and other bits of meta trickery lend a self-mocking element to the short, but it becomes horrific when a disgruntled extra imprisons the director, ties up his wife just out of reach, and threatens...
...you’re the type of person who watches horror movies, this is the epitome of the genre: it scares, it shocks, and it stays with you long after you’ve left the theatre. It also transcends the genre to explore themes of aging, love, and guilt. But, to be blunt, if you don’t like horror, this is not for you. And even if you’re a genre aficionado, once you’ve experienced the outer limits of this movie’s disturbed psyche, you’ll probably never...