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Indebted to the great gaslight-whodunits of the 1940s and ’50s, ‘Night Watch’ (1973, Brian G. Hutton) pits a delectably batshit Liz Taylor against an engrossing flurry of thunder, lightning, torrential rain, and soapy histrionics.
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Boy, early-noughties DTV slashers sure hit different.
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Kudos to @lifetimetv who for the past 15+ years have single-handedly churned out more slasher movies than anybody else in the business.
Kobayashi & his DoP (Yoshio Miyajima) treat each frame as though it were a painter’s canvas, delicately building layer upon layer of light, shadow, colour, texture. One can visualise them taking a step back to admire the separate pieces, before painstakingly gluing them together.