Siodmak keeps the tone very close to the worldly precepts of noir throughout, identifying Frank’s furious reaction to the charismatic stranger subsuming his place and placing the control of the Dark Oaks at the centre of the narrative: even when eternal life is involved, or perhaps especially...
Once that train has gone by, though, the train the camera is mounted on begins moving and enters the tunnel as well, creating the ideal moment for Smith’s film to interject. Despite ostensibly being set in a darkened railway car, the scene could still only be filmed in full, direct su...
It is by stripping away social fictions and revealing the evolutionary drives of its guest that the theme park delivers on its promise to reveal their “deepest self”: the grotesque impulses given to man by the crucible of sexual selection, visible to all even if not apparent to man’s con...