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Post by petrolino on Apr 29, 2017 19:19:44 GMT
Stalkers feature prominently in classic crime cinema. Sometimes these characters are portrayed as vile sociopaths who are predatory manipulators and compulsive liars. They can be extreme narcissists who transfer their own pain on to others. Sometimes they are snide and snarky villains like in backstage dramas, or those who constantly seek to undermine like ladder-climbers in office dramas. Nowadays online stalkers are becoming common characters to appear in crime and horror cinema, some films being based on real life stories. What are some of your favourite performances from actors playing stalkers in classic movies? Here's an old article in 'The Independent' to whet your appetite : Stalker movies - the genre that won't go awayThanks. |
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Post by hi224 on Apr 29, 2017 19:22:51 GMT
Hannibal in Hannibal the series was amazing.
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Post by hi224 on Apr 29, 2017 19:23:12 GMT
Hannibal in Hannibal the series was amazing.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 29, 2017 19:27:23 GMT
'Cape Fear' (1962) is one of my favourite movies from crime specialist J Lee Thompson and one I believe definitely fits the bill. There's a handy remake too, directed by Martin Scorsese who's a big fan of the original; 'Cape Fear' (1991) came during a decade where stalker movies were almost a genre unto themselves.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 29, 2017 19:28:29 GMT
Hannibal in Hannibal the series was amazing. I enjoy watching the different Hannibal Lecter movies that have been made but I've never seen the tv show. Sounds good. |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 29, 2017 19:34:10 GMT
"Is my husband having an affair?" "is my wife having an affair?" is the usual questions in old movies, offcourse they didn't have any affair with someone else, normally a private dick would solve that but costs "200 dollars plus expenses". Offcourse it always turned out to be innocent.
It's a great post! I hope you have many answeres
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Post by petrolino on Apr 29, 2017 19:43:06 GMT
Martin Scorsese has spoken about the terrible anguish stalking can cause to victims in the past; this is the man that made the chilling and complex crime classic 'Taxi Driver' (1976). Another Scorsese picture I'd recommend that takes a more humorous look at the stalker mentality is 'The King Of Comedy' (1983).
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 29, 2017 20:18:32 GMT
Those awful female stalkers are the worst:
Jessica Walters in PLAY MISTY FOR ME
Glenn Close in FATAL ATTRACTION
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 29, 2017 21:23:30 GMT
Van Heflin plays a disgruntled cop Webb Garwood, he is called to investigate a voyeur by lovely lonely housewife Susan Gilvray (Evelyn Keyes). in The Prowler (1951) from Joseph Losey, say no more....
"Unusually nasty and utterly unpredictable" ... L.Maltin
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Post by petrolino on Apr 29, 2017 21:30:07 GMT
Those awful female stalkers are the worst: Jessica Walters in PLAY MISTY FOR ME Glenn Close in FATAL ATTRACTION Glenn Close and Michael Douglas are excellent in 'Fatal Attraction'. Geraldine Chaplin knocks it out the park in Alan Rudolph's dark drama 'Remember My Name' (1978) and Kathy Bates is suitably unhinged (and in Oscar-winning form) for 'Misery' (1990). But all in all, I'd say I've found men have been typically much worse in movies I've watched over the years. Take a psychotic creep like the one seen in David Schmoeller's low budget horror 'The Seduction' (1982) for example, a film scripted with chilling clarity by its director. Or that sanctimonious scumbag Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) from Joseph Ruben's domestic drama 'The Stepfather' (1987), an arrogant slimeball who refuses to remove himself from his onerous past and is unable to accept his own failures so he chooses to lecture, chastise and victimise people who appear vulnerable in order to gain a sense of power and control. Phillips Smalley & Lois Weber's masterpiece 'Suspense' (1913) :
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 29, 2017 22:29:19 GMT
Stalkers feature prominently in classic crime cinema. Sometimes these characters are portrayed as vile sociopaths who are predatory manipulators and compulsive liars. an exception... is Kaneto Shindo's masterwork Onibaba (1964)
A dark fable of a sub-proletariat mother and daughter, who subsist and survive within and under cover of swamp grass by stalking and murdering desperate samurai, in order to sell their arms and armour.
"the tall, swaying reeds are my symbol of the world, the society which surrounds people... the world in which these commoners live and to which the eyes of lords and politicians do not reach"
The mother and the daughter-in-law, Shindo explains... "They are people totally abandoned, outside society's political protection. Among these outcasts I wanted to capture their immense energy for survival"
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Post by petrolino on Apr 30, 2017 22:16:25 GMT
Stalkers feature prominently in classic crime cinema. Sometimes these characters are portrayed as vile sociopaths who are predatory manipulators and compulsive liars. an exception... is Kaneto Shindo's masterwork Onibaba (1964)
A dark fable of a sub-proletariat mother and daughter, who subsist and survive within and under cover of swamp grass by stalking and murdering desperate samurai, in order to sell their arms and armour.
"the tall, swaying reeds are my symbol of the world, the society which surrounds people... the world in which these commoners live and to which the eyes of lords and politicians do not reach"
The mother and the daughter-in-law, Shindo explains... "They are people totally abandoned, outside society's political protection. Among these outcasts I wanted to capture their immense energy for survival"
I like 'Onibaba', a scary movie from some of feudal Japan's darkest days when it was hunt or be hunted. I like 'Kuroneko' (1968) too, carrying an emblematic symbol of horror cinema in the black cat that stalks its prey to sharpen its skills and survive but isn't afraid to curse those evildoers that darken its chosen path. |
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Post by snsurone on Apr 30, 2017 23:05:48 GMT
Pepe Le Pew.
Well, why not?
Not only is he a stalker, but he's also guilty of sexual harassment.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 30, 2017 23:32:02 GMT
As of late, Joel Edgerton in The Gift was great.
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Post by petrolino on Apr 30, 2017 23:55:19 GMT
As of late, Joel Edgerton in The Gift was great. I'll have to check it out, thanks. |
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Post by petrolino on May 1, 2017 10:12:57 GMT
Carl Boehm's disturbed psycho in Michael Powell's influential horror 'Peeping Tom' (1960) is one creepy unhinged stalker.
"Today, you'd call Peeping Tom a "slasher" movie; maybe a "stalker" one."
- Alexander Walker, London Evening Standard
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Post by Jillian on May 1, 2017 10:15:38 GMT
The nanny in the hand that rocks the cradle
Billie in scream
The controlling crazy husband in sleeping with the enemy
The caller in Phone Booth
the weirdo in When a stranger Calls
Cellular
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Post by petrolino on May 1, 2017 10:31:52 GMT
The nanny in the hand that rocks the cradle Billie in scream The controlling crazy husband in sleeping with the enemy The caller in Phone Booth the weirdo in When a stranger Calls Cellular 'Sleeping With The Enemy' is directed by Joseph Ruben who also directed 'The Stepfather', two startling portraits of sick, aggressive controllers who try to ruin the lives of others to make up for their own miserable, pathetic existence. He also made the exceedingly creepy 'The Good Son' about a sociopathic child. |
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Post by Jillian on May 1, 2017 10:35:17 GMT
The nanny in the hand that rocks the cradle Billie in scream The controlling crazy husband in sleeping with the enemy The caller in Phone Booth the weirdo in When a stranger Calls Cellular 'Sleeping With The Enemy' is directed by Joseph Ruben who also directed 'The Stepfather', two startling portraits of sick, aggressive controllers who try to ruin the lives of others to make up for their own miserable, pathetic existence. He also made the exceedingly creepy 'The Good Son' about a sociopathic child. Yes, forgot about those, I have seen both and they are frightening. Phone Booth, Cellular and When astranger Calls are quite scary as well. Then there is that movie with Mark Wahlberg and Witherspoon, but cannot remember much of it. |
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Post by petrolino on May 1, 2017 10:38:13 GMT
'Sleeping With The Enemy' is directed by Joseph Ruben who also directed 'The Stepfather', two startling portraits of sick, aggressive controllers who try to ruin the lives of others to make up for their own miserable, pathetic existence. He also made the exceedingly creepy 'The Good Son' about a sociopathic child. Yes, forgot about those, I have seen both and they are frightening. Phone Booth, Cellular and When astranger Calls are quite scary as well. Then there is that movie with Mark Wahlberg and Witherspoon, but cannot remember much of it. It's 'Fear'! I love that movie. |
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