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Terrible Taste (118 movies items)" Freud would have loved to get his coke filled nose on the writer of this one. I couldn’t help thinking, man a really repressed sicko might have written this and that is okay cause I’m very entertained and it only “fiction” after all. Lee Remick!! "
Films Watched in 2019
“More of a director trying on Hitchcockian suspense and seeing how it fits than a film noir, Experiment in Terror strikes curious poses as it lumbers towards its ending. Far too protracted to keep the suspense going, Experiment in Terror in an experiment alright, but mainly one of the “woman imperiled” variety. Much of the story is game of cat and mouse between rigid cop Glenn Ford (who else, really) and psycho killer Ross Martin with Lee Remick and Stephanie Powers functioning as collateral damage and tantalizing bits of temptation. This would all converge into something better if the damn thing just didn’t drag itself out for so long. At two hours, it can’t justify its bloated running time, and a lot of it loses tension as it feels like wheels spinning in the mud before the ” read more
Film Journal 2019 (225 movies items)"A very functional thriller that borders on perverse when you take into account the contemporary advertising it had, highlighting how titillating and taboo the film is. It makes the scenes of threatening sexual or physical violence on women appear more exploitative than they would be otherwise, and with a 2-hour run time it doesn't exactly make it worth your while at all times, having a rather straightforward story and all. Still, seeing Ross Martin being a bug-eyed lunatic Unabomber-lookalike, e"
