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Let's Scare Jessica to Death: The Quiet American Unease

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

The title is the worst thing about Let’s Scare Jessica to Death. It sounds like a drive-in shocker, a gimmick picture, the kind of thing sold on a lurid one-sheet and forgotten by Monday. What John D. Hancock actually made in 1971 is one of the quietest, most genuinely unnerving American horror films of its decade — a whispering, water-logged mood piece that spends ninety minutes refusing to tell you whether anything supernatural is happening at all. It has been rescued from obscurity slowly, by word of mouth and the odd revival screening, and every rescue has run up against that ridiculous title. Get past it. The film beneath is a small masterpiece of ambiguity.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: The Iranian Vampire Western

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000

The best joke in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is buried in the title. It is the sentence a young woman is warned never to let become true, the setup for a hundred cautionary tales and true-crime reconstructions, the phrase that means she is about to become a victim. Ana Lily Amirpour takes it and reverses the polarity. In her film the girl walking home alone at night is the most dangerous thing in the city, and the men who prey on women are the ones who should be afraid of the dark. It is a vampire film, a western, a mood piece, and a small act of revenge, and it announced one of the most distinctive new voices in genre cinema when it arrived in 2014.