“Do you know the world is a foul sty?” In Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943), this line is Uncle Charlie’s (Joseph Cotten) summary opinion about earthly existence. Hitchcock goes on to show how the small-town American family can hide its participation in worldly corruption (in particular, its perversion of sexuality) behind a veneer of respectability. In Stoker (2013), Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, 2003; Thirst, 2009) draws back the veil that covers the dark underside of family psychosexual dynamics, a subject to which Hitchcock’s era allowed the Master of Suspense only to allude.
Tag: Mia Wasikowska
Follow the MAPS TO THE STARS (2014)
David Cronenberg, the venerable Canadian King of Venereal Horror himself, takes a satirical turn in MAPS TO THE STARS, which skewers the lives of prototypical Hollywood elite.
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