Second, this movie is the origin (or maybe the American one is) of the term "Gaslighting"; or making someone (in particular a woman) think they are insane by manipulating the environment around them. Upfront you can tell that is an adaption of a play. Not that this a bad thing, but there is a certain level of melodrama that comes from a stage play that you can see here.
The film is Noir even if the story is straight out of gothic literature. It makes for a great late-Victorian, early-Edwardian piece. I am calling it horror because there are some fairly horrific implications of this movie. Paul is quite a monster in this, to be honest. I kept wanting him to die a horrible death. His ending is very delicious.
The atmosphere skips between the whimsy I associate with films from the 1940s and the think gothic atmosphere of the story.
I saw the 1944 version years and years ago. This one really reminded me of that one.
2016 Movie tally
Watched: 4
New: 3
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