Word: frighted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they do? Here is where their definition of revenge suddenly makes perfect sense. How do you take revenge on yourself? Even at a very young age these people perceive their own capacity for evil, which is the human capacity, and they deny it with as much vehemence as fright...
...late Melvyn Douglas were recruited to play the aged versions of the young men who did the Krige character deadly wrong a half-century before. Nobody has provided a decent line for any of them to say, let alone a scene that would allow them a memorable moment of fright or, for that matter, a shadow of the wit and style that had been bred into all their bones. The whole enterprise is as thin as an unoccupied shroud, less menacing than a Mickey Mouse cartoon and about as entertaining as an airline departure lounge...
...haunt. Thomas provides the necessary disembodied footsteps and floor creaks, but the rest is silence. The featured ghost--not just an amorphous white cloud, but a nattily dressed gentleman named Marion--offers nothing more threatening than a few cross glares. Overabundant in tension, The Haunting of M lacks genuine fright. In the most important scenes, Marion reveals himself to be a lovesick and slightly wrathful admirer of Marianna, played with calculated flirtatiousness by Sheelagh Gilby. Indeed, in his last scenes, Marion becomes truly tender as he reaches out to Marianna, scowling jealously at those who try to prevent the match...
Rallis, 62, is a colorless but competent politician who became Prime Minister in 1980, when Caramanlis moved up to the presidency. He has tried to fright en audiences with predictions of the chaos that would result from a PASOK victory...
Apart from the vault, the plot machinations include blunt instruments, arson and grotesque fright masks, but none of these prove either droll or scarifying. In the end, the old lady still rules her roost, but Claudette Colbert, alas, falls victim to the play. -By T.E. Kalem