Georges Franju

Nov 2, 2024 | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | Alfred Hitchcock |Georges Franju |Roman Polanski |George Romero

Unearth the best 1960s movies ever and you’ll see the decade started off screaming. Psycho titillated audiences showing Janet Leigh in a bra before serving up one of the most shocking death scenes ever committed to screen – it still shocks some 60 years later. Both Psycho and Peeping Tom released the same year and both share comment on voyeurism, with the latter going as far as implicating the viewer in its POV murder shots.

Oct 31, 2024 | gatecrashers.fan | Georges Franju |Pedro Almodóvar

“A human guinea pig. What a godsend for him!”– Eyes Without a Face (1960)“The things that a madman’s love can do!”– The Skin I Live In (2011)Compared to the plethora of horror films about mothers and motherhood, fathers in horror seem to be left on the wayside. Unless, you count the mad scientist and his (and it’s usually his) creations as a sort of proxy to this relationship. The prototypical mad scientist is experimenting on animals, dead bodies, patients, and automatons.