Your Halloween Movie for November: Putting Goth in Gothic

uncletor · Post by **uncletor** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 12:43 pm

Okay, for the next few months, some Halloween movies that are NOT strictly speaking Halloween movies, but are pretty much Halloween movies in everything but name. For those times when someone in the house says:'Halloween is OVER...can't we watch SOMETHING else?"
Our first offering.
JANE EYRE (1944) Orson Welles. Joan Fontaine. DON'T RUN AWAY. KEEP READING.
I know that sometimes these adaptations of Classics come out as dry as toast. Not this time. Frank Brady called it "..a handsome Halloween study in shadows, a worthy contender for the escapist horror films at that time."
Now hold onto this story: when Tim Burton was in Hollywood, they gave him an offfice with a great view of the skyline.
He kept it with the shades drawn almost all the time.
Except when it stormed. THEN he'd open the windows and SMILE.
Hold that thought.
In this movie, whenever Fontaine feels PASSIONATE about Welles, it starts to thunder or storm...it's Barry White for her. The big scary monster in this flick is THE SYSTEM..Fontaine sets it up perfectly with the opening monologue that you have to HEAR to believe. About how heartless and what a town without pity the whole place is.
The lighting and atmosphere is first rate. The crazy first wife that Orson wants to keep locked up will make your jaw drop and eyes pop and wait until her BROTHER comes to town..There is not a lot of love lost..schlump thinks he can HELP her, and then RATS OUT Orson.....the director was big on Bronte and got all the details RIGHT. Dig the ten year old Elizabeth Taylor, and Agnes (Bewitched) Moorehead.

One Eye'd Jack · Post by **One Eye'd Jack** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:23 pm

COOL! That's sounds very interesting, Tor! Thanks!!! I'll check it out!

MHooch · Post by **MHooch** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:50 pm

EXCELLENT choice, Uncletor, one of my favorites!

The mood is spectacular...great direction and cinematography...Wells is just perfect as the brooding, dark Rochester, and Fontaine is stunning as the affection-starved Jane. And the secret in the attic is SPLENDID when it is revealed. AND my favorite Hollywood composer, Bernard Herrmann did the score. Romantic, gothic and thrilling.

Hooch gives it 2 thumbs way up.

Dutchess of Darkness · Post by **Dutchess of Darkness** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 3:49 am

Ok Uncletor, I have that one written down, thanks for sharing that with us

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