Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by laznos (A) on February 05, 2007 at 17:21:43

In Reply to: "The Night of the Hunter' posted by rico on February 3, 2007 at 11:44:07:

This film, from the mid '50s, manages to be retro and ahead of its time simultaneously. It is Capraesque with the Lillian Gish subplot, and anticipates 'Psycho' with Mitchum's character. This might be the scariest performance of all time, Mitchum plays as if possessed with a force of unrelenting evil. He blows away Tony Perkins, who also gave a great performance in Hitchcock's masterpiece.