The Morbid Imagination
Patrick BairdA journey into the dark corners of society, through crime and horror fiction
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Le Cercle Rouge
My ramble through classic heist movies and my sampling of the crime films of Jean-Pierre Melville continues with his 1970 film Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle).
Unlike Melville’s Bob le flambuer (reviewed HERE) which planned then failed to...
Shudder Pulps
Throughout most of the classic pulp magazine era, approximately 1920 to 1950, horror found its place alongside boxing stories, romance, science fiction, and Western stories.
The legendary Weird Tales emerged in 1923, providing a platform f...
Bob le flambeur/The Good Thief
French filmmaker Jean-Luc Goddard was not a fan of Rififi, which I reviewed last week. “...it can’t hold a candle to Touchez pas au grisbi which paved the way for it, let alone Bob le flambeur which it paved the way for.”
So according to G...
The Curse of the Werewolf
One more Hammer favorite from my youth...
Our first encounter with an archetype is usually the one that colors our perception of the character for the rest of our lives. Your first movie action hero. Your first superhero. Your first TV det...
Rififi
According to a singer in the film, Rififi is French slang for ‘rough and tumble’ which is either a metaphor for intercourse or the thug life.
Either way, Jules Dassin’s heist masterpiece Rififi is a smoothly executed film drenched in reali...
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Navy veteran, former newspaper reporter, and former repo man. Resident of Door County Wisconsin, author of local crime novels. I don't use A.I. Period.
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