What this week’s The Night Of lacks in plot development, it more than makes up for in terms of nameless dread and nagging questions — and I say that as nothing but a compliment.
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As Naz struggles to follow the One Simple Rule for Helping His Eczematous Lawyer — not spilling any more precious beans to the “Subtle Beast” Det. Box — he samples a pu pu platter of holding-cell horrors, suffers an expected (but devastating) blow in court, and finally gets shipped off to Rikers Island. (And if...
RelatedGame of Thrones‘ George R.R. Martin on Emmy Noms: ‘Outlander Was Robbed’
As Naz struggles to follow the One Simple Rule for Helping His Eczematous Lawyer — not spilling any more precious beans to the “Subtle Beast” Det. Box — he samples a pu pu platter of holding-cell horrors, suffers an expected (but devastating) blow in court, and finally gets shipped off to Rikers Island. (And if...
- 7/18/2016
- TVLine.com
From Nosferatu to Twilight, gothic films have explored what frightens us – and why we are willing victims of our fear. A few days before Halloween, and as the BFI begins a nationwide season, Michael Newton is seduced by horror, sex and satanism
Beyond high castle walls, the wolves howl. The Count intones: "Listen to them! The children of the night! What music they make!" And those words usher you into a faintly ludicrous cosiness, the comfortable darkness of gothic. For gothic properties are altogether snug, as familiar as Halloween costumes – a Boris Karloff mask, the Bela Lugosi cape, an Elsa Lanchester wig. So it is that many of us first come to the form through its parodies; I knew Carry On Screaming! by heart before I saw my first Hammer film. And yet, within the homely restfulness, something genuinely disturbing lurks; an authentic dread. And watching these films again, we...
Beyond high castle walls, the wolves howl. The Count intones: "Listen to them! The children of the night! What music they make!" And those words usher you into a faintly ludicrous cosiness, the comfortable darkness of gothic. For gothic properties are altogether snug, as familiar as Halloween costumes – a Boris Karloff mask, the Bela Lugosi cape, an Elsa Lanchester wig. So it is that many of us first come to the form through its parodies; I knew Carry On Screaming! by heart before I saw my first Hammer film. And yet, within the homely restfulness, something genuinely disturbing lurks; an authentic dread. And watching these films again, we...
- 10/26/2013
- by Michael Newton
- The Guardian - Film News
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