Tag: mystery movies

• From Gothic Thriller to Art Film

  Another fun website that reviews and analyzes genre films is Braineater, created and maintained by Will Laughlin. In this installment he reviews the French film La Chambre ardente (1962), “a movie that sits somewhere between an art film and a Gothic thriller,” directed by Julien Duvivier, based on a classic novel by the American author […]

  Bill Ectric

  November 23, 2016

  Film, French film, gothic, gothic fiction, John Dickson Carr, Julien Duvivier, La Chambre ardente, literature, mystery movies, mystery novels, mystery writers, The Burning Court

• Charles Wadsworth Camp at the Movies

  In my previous discussion of Charles Wadsworth Camp, I mentioned that several of Camp’s books later became films. I hope to track down all the movies and watch them, if possible. Last night I watched the very entertaining silent murder mystery, The Last Warning (1929, Universal Pictures). Based on Camp’s novel, The House of Fear […]

  Bill Ectric

  April 20, 2012

  Alfred Cohn, Charles Wadsworth Camp, horror movies, mystery movies, Paul Leni, silent films, The Cat and the Canary, The House of Fear, The Last Warning, Thomas F. Fallon, Universal Pictures, Wadsworth Camp