14 May 2013

Literature

petite mort (serpent’s tail)

PETITE MORTThe French film industry just before WWI is the setting of Beatrice Hitchman’s delicious debut novel, PETITE MORT (Serpent’s Tail).

Essentially, it is the back story of a mystery, the sinister incineration of a movie studio in which a recently …

Cinema

the call

THE CALL-002The telephone has been an instrument of terror in movies since SORRY WRONG NUMBER and DIAL M FOR MURDER. Scaring Stanwyck and grossing out Grace. Who could forget the phone fright of  WHEN A STRANGER CALLS or PHONE BOOTH? Poor …

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