Tag: serial killer
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A cunning serial killer is on the loose and police are baffled
Bodies are popping up with terrifying regularity in a small South Korean city and the local police force has few clues to go on. Young women are being raped and strangled, their bodies abandoned in little traveled spots, and public hysteria is growing. It’s the late 1980s and Korea has not yet emerged from authoritarian…
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‘The Night of the Hunter’: Babes in the Woods Face Evil
I first saw “The Night of the Hunter” (1955) 20-plus years ago and walked away impressed but not particularly in love with the movie, and having said that I know what many of you are thinking: Heresy! I have no real excuse for my initial reaction. The Charles Laughton directed drama, the only film he…
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‘Dementia’: A Feverish, Tortured Night on Skid Row
“Dementia” (1955) has many of film noir’s hallmarks: a dingy hotel room with a well-worn electric sign outside that nervously flashes off and on, shady characters prowling skid row’s streets and a posh-looking fat man who glides around town in the back seat of his limo. And of course tobacco smoke, deep, dark shadows and…