Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE. Harold Pinter can be relied on to produce unnerving, dramatic and provocative comedies of terror, and he does it again in these two engrossing one-acters...
...Chambers is an extraordinarily well-balanced play. It ranges from sight gags to Baudelaire, from terror to frivolity, with admirable ease. Despite several overlong scene changes that run the play to two and a half hours, Forman keeps the action moving skillfully. He sends the actors winding in and out of Patty Grimes' sets with only candles for light, suggesting the endless passages in the enormous house. He keeps Wake waiting at the house's gate for at least two minutes until the student's unease spreads to the audience...
...then 22, had been chewed out by his commanding officer because he needed a shave. That night Thompson drowned his resentment in cognac, brooded about his job as a clerk in the Office of Special Investigation at Berlin's Tempelhof Air Base. "You lived in a state of terror," he recalled. "Everyone in our office was watching someone. We all watched each other...
Director Aldrich piles on a series of scream-in-the-night shocks, the better to batten a script strikingly short of sneakier surprises. In Charlotte's formula for terror, the nuttiest characters naturally turn out to be saner than anyone else. But there is rich menace in the dark, lushly mossy photography of Joseph Biroc, whose camera seems to have a malevolent presence of its own-a thing of shadows, catching the glint of an evil eye through the gossamer of steamed windows or sweeping up a curved balustrade that coils into the blackness below like an enormous question...
Goldwater is out of the picture, Scott says, but even without a candidate, the right wingers are attempting to build up an organization. Scott makes no bones about his genuine terror of the "psychoceramics," (i.e., crackpots) and he feels that they must be completely annihilated, though without resorting to the deplorable methods they themselves employed in San Francisco...