Hitchcock Breaks the Sound Barrier in Early Films ‘Blackmail’ and ‘Murder!’
Hitchcock's motif of treacherous toying with filmgoers is intriguing to spot in his early silent-to-talkie thrillers, Blackmail and Murder!
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But a Dream within a Dream: Luigi Bazzoni’s ‘The Possessed’
The Possessed (aka Lady of the Lake) is a feverish dream-narrative in which the protagonist is often literally fevered and dreaming, yet he jerks awake more often than people in a Brian De Palma movie.