Not my favorite play, either by Shakespeare or anyone else. If this were a modern-day piece, half the characters would be dismissed as obsessive or neurotic, at least two have character disorders, and one is a genuine sociopath. Just your average, everyday mix of the dysfunctional and socially inept. Some of the play is scintillating, but it is also very tedious in places and overall very unpleasant.
Ellen Burstyn is reason enough to watch this movie. Very well done and very, very disturbing.
I’m not incredibly superstitious, but every now and again, I find myself tripping over one, which is why I have never gotten around to watching this movie before now: I simply do not believe in giving undue attention to anything having to do with hell. I mean—just consider what happened when I went to see The Exorcist. Or, that is you could consider it were I to tell you about it, except that I am not going to tell you about it so you can’t really give it the consideration it deserves. Except that it really did put me off of movies that glorify demonic activity.
It wasn’t until I saw the preview for Hellboy 2 in the theaters that I realized Guillermo del Toro was responsible for Hellboy 1. And even more than my abhorrence of hell movies is my unabashed admiration for the work of Guillermo del Toro. Sigh! Such a dillemna. After having seen Hellboy, it did not disappoint me in quality. Well crafted and enjoyable with the eternal del Toro struggle between good and evil. Worth putting aside superstitions for.
Poor Cornell Woolrich. Such a master of noir and so often overlooked and forgotten. Most do not know he is the writer behind Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Truffault’s The Bride Wore Black, and others. Worth reading and this book is a good place to get aquainted with his work.
In Duo-Vision! Entirely cheesy, so early-1970s groovy, and very entertaining in a Psycho-takeoff kind of way. It is a bit of a come-down for Madeleine Sherwood to go from playing all that Tennessee Williams and Alfred Hitchcock (and the Flying Nun, no less!) to this, though.
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