Tag Archives: Carnival
Nightmare Alley (1947)
They didn’t call them noirs then; they were just crime pictures – cheap, pulpy, sensationalistic. The papers turned up their noses but audiences flocked to them, so studios kept making them. But if we didn’t have crime pictures as deeply … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Smoking Gun
Tagged 40's, Carnival, film noir, hard boiled, psychic, Tarot
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Night Tide (1961)
Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1961) suggests what might have happened had Jean Cocteau been hired to direct an episode of The Twilight Zone. Perhaps it lacks Cocteau’s style of experimentation, but there is a romantic and eerie quality to this … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Fantastique
Tagged 60's, Carnival, Dennis Hopper, Drama, Fantasy, Mermaid
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