LA GRANDE FROUSSE (“The Big Fright”) Production: France, 1964 Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky Category: Crime/Terror One of only two features to be based on the novels of Jean Ray (the other being Harry Kumel’s Malpertuis), La Grande Frousse is based on Ray’s La Cité De L’Indicible Peur (“City Of Unspeakable Fear”), written in Continue Reading
THE INNOCENTS
THE INNOCENTS Production: UK, 1961 Director: Jack Clayton Category: Ghosts Based on Henry James’ arid ghost novel The Turn Of The Screw, The Innocents was a surprisingly effective interpretation by Clayton, who had previously directed The Bespoke Overcoat (1956), a 33-minute ghost story adapted from Gogol. It would take Michael Winner Continue Reading