Drew and Nick lean on the everlasting arm of one of America's greatest films, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
31 DAYS OF DREW - DAY 2: NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Every horrorhound's favorite month is upon us, and to celebrate, I'll be dishing out a personal pick from the genre for every day in October. Some will be obvious and rather unoriginal (sorry that I like movies other people like), while some will be a little more oddball and off-the-wall. Some may even challenge your idea of what constitutes a "horror" movie. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the month with some good movies, even if they aren't ones I recommend!
Today's Pick: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Halloween season is the perfect time for a fresh audience to glance back into the yesteryears of cinema and discover some classic chillers. While the Universal monster cycle of the 30's, 40's and even into the 50's should be mandatory viewing, there is a subsection of older horror films (usually given the shame-distancing sub-genre title of "psychological thriller") dealing with human monsters that shouldn't be ignored. Some great examples would be 1962's Cape Fear (remade in better-than-average fashion by Martin Scorsese in 1991), 1959's variation on the famous Leopold-Loeb murder case, Compulsion, or Alfred Hitchcock's golden standard, Psycho. One of the best of this breed has to be The Night of the Hunter, the solo directing effort of Charles Laughton, who played one of fiction's greatest monsters, Quasimodo, in the stellar 1939 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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