Only Hitchcock keeps racking up the tension by cutting away to clocks and noting the time approaching the fateful hour. Only the boy gets distracted along the way by various sights, stall-holders and hawkers.Įven we start to forget about the ticking bomb when the Lord Mayor’s Show passes right in front of the Royal Courts of Justice. While under the suspicion of the police, Verloc sends his wife’s little brother, Stevie, out into the streets with a package – a bomb – to be left in the luggage store at Piccadilly Circus.
Hitchcock’s version of Joseph Conrad’s novel ‘The Secret Agent’ has Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka) as an undercover terrorist and the east European owner of a London cinema. When it comes to terror, Hitchcock’s the bomb To top it off, he throws a load of banknotes on top of Sophie as she lies on the floor, visibly shaken. ‘We’ve had a very interesting afternoon, haven’t we, Sophie,’ he sneers when her flatmate returns. Put simply, he’s a rapist and the scene in which he forces himself on his tenant, Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge), in her bedroom is horrifying because of the sheer exploitation of power evident on so many levels: he’s a man, he’s a landlord, he feels entitled by his wealth and, to top it off, Sophie is a nervous, damaged character, unable to assert herself and turn him downĪfter the event, his comments chill even further. He’s not the subtlest character in the history of cinema, but the character of the sleazy, upper-crust landlord Jeremy (or Sebastian, as he also calls himself, played by Greg Cruttwell) in Mike Leigh’s ‘Naked’ inspires some deeply uncomfortable viewing. – Derek AdamsĬast: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Greg Cruttwell What makes this scene especially terrifying is the way Miller ensures we only see a fleeting glimpse of the creature – just enough to freak us out. The result is a jolt from the blue as Aykroyd’s face instantly morphs into a hideous witch-like creature.īut that’s just a precursor to George Miller’s excellent reworking of the classic aerophobia scene in ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet’, in which Lithgow’s nervous airline passenger is convinced he sees a revolting gremlin tearing the cowling off the aircraft’s port engine while flying through a storm.
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But then, after some playful banter, passenger Aykroyd turns to driver Brooks and says, ‘Do you want to see something really scary?’.
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Joe Dante’s opening segment for this compendium of remakes of episodes from Rod Serling’s classic ‘Twilight Zone’ TV series sees two guys (Aykroyd and Brooks) driving a straight road in the dead of night.
– David Jenkinsĭirectors include: Joe Dante, George MillerĬast: Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow It forces you to look twice to make sure it’s not really happening. It encapsulates the gritty, street-level, in-the-moment style that characterised such ’70s American classics as ‘ The French Connection’ and ‘ Mean Streets’. The scene is heady and amazingly choreographed.
There’s a police parade, and he just whacks out his pistol and opens fire. And it centres on an out-of-control policeman. The film opens on a young sniper taking potshots at a busy street, but it’s a later scene where the startling reality of this act becomes clear. ‘God Told Me to’ is a mad, hardboiled satire about extra-terrestrial religious cults in which a strange lizard-like creature takes hold of people’s minds and orders them to kill in the name of the Lord. ‘Loopy’ Larry Cohen remains one of America’s sultans of schlock, but – like John Carpenter – his grungy genre work-outs carry incisive political barbs. Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis