Το μυστήριο της Μπάνι Λέικ

demi adejuyigbe4.5

Fuck!!! What a masterfully-directed mystery. Shot so beautifully and built so well, lots of perfect little misdirects and kicks to keep you in Carol Lynley’s wonderfully paranoid, stressed out shoes. Keir Dullea and Laurence Olivier are just as terrific as Lynley, and Noel Coward is having such a blast playing a real creep. That ending though... absolutely terrifying and fantastic. Can’t say much without spoiling it but my heart rate was elevated for the entire final 20 minutes.

mia lee vicino4.5

historically, so-called “hysterical” women have been subjected to institutionalization, lobotomies, and forced sterilization—this subtextual threat looms over our heroine Annie Lake’s head like miasma. horror is derived from the all-too familiar dread of not being believed.sorta feels like a precursor to Rosemary’s Baby (the novel was published just 2 years after this film‘s release), and definitely feels emblematic of the second-wave feminism that arose in the 60s. can’t believe i hadn’t heard of it until Demi suggested we watch it! #BelieveWomen (and #BelieveDemi) canon!

Ethan Colburn4.0

This is a tight drama that feels way ahead of its time. With a missing kid and incestuous undertones, it’s no wonder this was extremely shocking for the 60s. Executed perfectly by Otto Preminger, it got quite intense near the end, putting me on the edge of my seat. I wish we had a Laurence Olivier police captain series...