Blood Bath Shower Curtain

Posted by Notcot on Jan 28, 2013 in Gadgets

You’ve spent a hard day on the road driving as fast as you can from the life you used to lead. It’s all gone wrong and you don’t know where to turn but you can feel your eyes closing as you slowly drift in and out of consciousness and you know that if you don’t sleep soon you’ll just be another statistic in tomorrow morning’s newspapers. You pull over at the first motel you see paying little attention to the empty car park or the ominous house on the hill casting its menacing black shadow. What you need is a nice relaxing shower – don’t worry about the hole bored into the wall the manager just likes to keep a close eye on things – but what’s this? There’s blood all over the floor – the shower curtain is bundled up on the tiles soaking in a puddle of what can only be. . . . Mother? MOTHER! And then you wake up. It’s ok you’re at home but maybe you shouldn’t have stayed up all night watching Hitchcock – you’d better take a shower and get ready for work. All you need to do now is figure out why there are bloody handprints all over the shower curtain? It was just a dream wasn’t it? Mwahahahahahahaha.

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Peeping Tom – Criterion Collection

Posted by Notcot on May 27, 2010 in Cult Film

Average Rating: 4.5 / 5 (8 Reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Review
Michael Powell lays bare the cinema’s dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (the director in a perverse cameo) who subjected his son to nightmarish experiments in fear and recorded every interaction with a movie camera. Now Mark continues his father’s work, sadistically killing young women with a phallic-like blade attached to his movie camera and filming their final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear. Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colourful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings. Comparisons to Hitchcock’s Psycho, released the same year, are inevitable. Powell’s film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell’s picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full colour photography, documentary techniques and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 re-release, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative audiences for the first time. This powerfully perverse film was years ahead of its time and remains one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made. –Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

Peeping Tom – Criterion Collection

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