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Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant made four films together, the most famous of which is An Affair to Remember, but four years before they declared their love for one another on an ocean liner and immortalised the Empire State Building; they starred in a comedy called Dream Wife. via Nightmare Wife: Deborah Kerr in “Dream Wife”… Continue reading Nightmare Wife: Deborah Kerr in “Dream Wife” (1953) — Pale Writer

In 1968, Mia Farrow showed that she could play a character that required both exhaustive physical and psychological realisation. In Rosemary’s Baby, she played a young woman who has the unimaginable happen to her, and she was rightly nominated for a BAFTA and Academy Award for her efforts. A year before that, in 1967, Audrey… Continue reading A Sightless Evil: Mia Farrow in “See No Evil” (1971) — Pale Writer

The first time I watched Rosemary’s Baby I turned to my mom and said, “I want her haircut.” And I got it. To be fair, I lacked the lithe elegance of Mia Farrow and still had some baby fat, so the result was not quite what I hoped. But when I was in my mid… Continue reading The Story of an Iconic Hair don’t that became a HairDo: Mia Farrow’s pixie cut — Pale Writer

Ernest Lubitsch is one of the finest directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. I’ve waxed lyrical about him before in my post on To Be Or Not To Be, but every time I watch one of his movies, I am dazzled by his sensational satire and his incredible ability to construct complex but relatable films.… Continue reading The Class of Cluny Brown (1946) — Pale Writer

When my mother was a child, her mother took she and my mother’s younger brother to the movies whenever she was able. The mother of four, my grandmother had little time for leisure activities, but books and movies were very important to her, and she passed her love for both onto her two youngest children. via… Continue reading A Silver Discovery: How I became a classic film fan — Pale Writer

A few months ago I undertook the task of watching all fourteen of the Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies. I am very glad to say that I was successful in my little quest. Like most classic film fans, my feelings about the series are mixed. I feel that the majority of the […]… Continue reading A Glowing Mist: Sherlock Holmes and The Scarlet Claw (1944) — Pale Writer

Like most people, my first exposure to Vincent Price was through horror films, and the only early film of his that I really knew was Dragonwyck. But over the years, as my appreciation for classic film has continued to grow and mature, I’ve sought out more films from his pre-horror career, such as the two… Continue reading Paging Dr Death: Vincent Price in “Shock” (1946) — Pale Writer

Some of the films made in this world, were created for sick and twisted individuals that find strange pleasure in watching the most atrocious scenes. Let’s start with some of the tamer scenes in extreme horror films, to please those of you who might not be quite ready for the serious brutally and for those […]… Continue reading Most disturbing moments in film – part 1 —

For the longest time people have asked me “But what exactly is extreme horror?” and it’s an exceptionally valid question to ask. It’s easy to determine what constitutes as something within the horror genre, especially when it comes to film, but extreme cinema is a little more complicated because it doesn’t always necessarily rely on […]… Continue reading An Introduction to Extreme Cinema: What makes an extreme horror film? —