Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 18, 2001Psycho-Thriller/Friendly Uncle Might Be a Killer
Considered one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, this centres around Joseph Cotten as the favourite uncle who comes to town as his niece increasingly suspects that he may be a serial killer

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
Rating: ★★
Jan 17, 2001Victorian Moon Expedition/Jules Verne Adaptation
One of a series of Jules Verne adaptations that were popular in the 1950s about a Victorian-era Lunar rocket launch, this starts with great promise but loses impetus once it gets into orbit

Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 12, 2003Southern Gothic Psycho-Thriller
Robert Aldrich's successor to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Bette Davis on the receiving end this time. This is arguably a superior film with a tightly contorted psycho-thriller plot and a decaying Southern setting

The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)

The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 11, 1999Disfigued Madman's Campy Revenge
Droll, elegant camp masterpiece with Vincent Price giving the best performance of his life as a deformed madman employing the Biblical Plagues of Egypt as a motif to take revenge against the surgeons who killed his wife