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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

1/25/2008

Scream of Fear (1961)

Fantastically atmospheric movie that involves a wheelchair-bound girl, a dead dad who keeps popping up, and a mysterious stepmother.

It's a short one, just 81 minutes, but I think it really hits its peak at about the one-hour mark. Though there are still a couple surprises in the last 20 minutes, nothing satisfies in the same way the first ending (or what I THOUGHT was the ending at the time) did.

Good performances in this crisp, very-little-nonsense thriller.

B+

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