Roeg's film is an immensely stylish, neo-gothic head scratcher that deploys minions no less impressive than the Church, the Elderly, and the Color Red in service of its considerable chills.
Fall is officially upon us and that's the time when we here at Pocket Cinephile take a break from our standard fare and enjoy the crisp chill of a good, artful scare. Over the next weeks we'll unveil our 10 favorite PC-approved Horror films.
Despite a reasonable execution of the cops and gangsters paradigm and one truly impressive chase sequence, Gray's film is inefficiently scripted and subsequently inert.
Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston positively stalk the screen as stubborn father and firebrand daughter in Anthony Mann's ranch epic, newly available from Criterion.