In 1971, Hammer was having another go at Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a decade after its failed first attempt, Terence Fisher's generally misguided The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll. Perhaps to avoid confusion with Roy Ward Baker's Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Milton Subotsky opted to call his own adaptation of the same year I, Monster and changed the names of the title character(s) to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake.
David Lynch has created some of the scariest moments on
film. The infamous scene behind Winkie’s Diner has been rated cinema’s scariest
scene more than once. Twin Peaks has
been named television’s scariest show. Eraserhead,
Lost Highway, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, INLAND
EMPIRE, and, of all things, The
Elephant Man have been categorized as horror movies through the years.
However, Lynch has never really been a horror film director. Rather he works
horror into his work in the same way that he works in comedy and melodrama, and
because he does not really make films we expect to hit the beats of specific
genres, those moments of humor, naked emotion, and terror always hit harder than
they would in genre pictures because they are so unexpected.
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