I watched 'Dead of Winter' by Arthur Penn yesterday. It's a thriller based on a 1945 tv-movie named 'My Name is Julia Ross'. It's a well-crafted, fun movie that has a lot of Hitchcock elements. Though it is a very traditional movie, it is suspenseful at times. What I liked a lot about it was the setting: a beautiful classical villa in a snowy, stormy landscape. Mary Steenburgen plays 3 different roles very well, but the real attraction is Roddy MacDowall as a psychopatic butler.
[ 11. November 2011, 04:50: Message edited by: Burnett ]
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
My brother has the dvd, i´m gonna check it out soon.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I agree, B. It is a nice little old-fashioned thriller.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
great little thriller this one burnett,love the setting,roddy mcdowalls creepy character,the music ,not long purchased this one on dvd.
i think it's a very underated 80s thriller that to me suprisingly gets very mixed reviews.
Watched Dead of Winter yesterday and liked it a lot. Very good old school horror thriller, builds up the tension nicely and you gotta love the location. Good cast, this has to be one of Steenburgen´s best roles. Jan Rubes proves that a man in a wheelchair can be frightening and Roddy McDowall rocks in his first feature film after Fright Night.
Posted by jewleigh (Member # 4559) on :
I love this movie, very underrated in my opinion!
Posted by Dutch Gannon (Member # 10167) on :
I thought this was a good one, I actually found it through a Google search of films Percy Rodriquez narrated the trailers to. I love the way he did trailers.
