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Influences

posted 19 years ago by Eumenides_0
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What movies do you think influenced Polanski's vision and this movie's content?

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[–] straightstory 17 years ago

on the flipside, I certainly would imagine that
John Carpenter was influenced by this in making
Halloween (as well as Hitchcock, of course).

[–] Prof_Lostiswitz 15 years ago

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) - they have a lot in common.

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[–] Eumenides_0 15 years ago

I'm trying to find Dementia; from the description - a woman's descent into madness during one night - it looks like a forerunner of Repulsion.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] pascarot 15 years ago

Clouzot's "Les Diaboliques"

[–] trevmovie 15 years ago

Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" (the arms coming out of the walls)

Possibly "The Wind" where a repressed Lillian Gish kills a man and goes crazy when the wind uncovers his buried corpse.

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