Word: chiller
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...want to learn how to drive your wife crazy and seduce the chambermaid, then don't miss "Gaslight," Hollywood's expert, adaptation of the Broad way chiller, "Angel Street." It's a gripping mystery of the first order, and you'll be pinned to your seat...
Almost unique for a period chiller is the simplicity of the plot: it's about a pianist (Boyer) who marries (Bergman) and, for the sake of a few diamonds, tries to drive his wife mad to get her put away and enable him to search her house for the coveted stones. Joseph Cotten is a hawkshaw from Scotland Yard who pulls the here act. Director George Cuckor carries the audience along with all the stages of deliberately produced insanity partly by keeping the plot moving and partly by knocking all of the "For Whom the Bell Tolls" freshness...
...photograph you print is a spine chiller. It chilled mine when I first saw the original, and I went into it as I would into the water at a Maine beach. But everything is relative. ... I saw no "callousness." The contact was always human, if not necessarily "humane. . . ." "Nursing methods are not standardized." Neither are complexes, fixations, psychoses, nor the outside world...
When Marie Belloc Lowndes wrote her masterpiece, "The Lodger," it was one of the finest studies in the reflexes of man that had ever graced back covers. The chiller is easily the best of the horror stories, and an honest presentation of it during the silent picture days was a tremendous...
...night came Richard Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), of his autobiographical chiller admitted: "I added the experiences of some other people to make the book as effective as possible." Armenian Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen), glossy darling of the '20s (The Green Hat), reached Manhattan by freighter from Britain, en route to Hollywood. Latest report on the other Armenian, William Saroyan: he plans to start a saloon modeled on his play, The Time of Your Life, on Manhattan's fly-blown Third Avenue...