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...Marissa Blumenthal, public health officer at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, finds herself caught between micro and macro killers in Robin Cook's newest medical tingler. She must solve two mysteries: how an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (mortality rate more than 90%) got from Central Africa to the U.S., and why it only strikes staff and patients at clinics with prepaid health-care plans. Physician-Novelist Cook enjoys stretching credulity (in his previous blockbuster Coma, people were murdered to provide organs for the transplant trade). Here a league of conservative doctors plays with the viral equivalent...
That spine tingler of a script is, with a certain amount of cinematic license, akin to sweet reality at the 55-acre Hollywood studios of venerable Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Gulf & Western. A year ago, the company that distributed one of the first Hollywood feature-length movies (The Squaw Man, 1914) was close to the ropes, its revenues sagging and its film larder practically bare. Today, in the words of Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Guardian Research, a Los Angeles investment-management firm, "they're having the greatest year of any company in the recent history...
Deathtrap. A dandy scalp tingler-literate, amusing, land-mined with scarifying surprises. John Wood is the chief perpetrator, and he juggles mirth and mayhem with superb adroitness...
...murder-mystery thriller is a theatrically endangered species. Seasons go by without one, and there have been seven lean years since the last dandy scalp tingler, Sleuth. Deathtrap is a congenial successor-literate, amusing, booby-trapped with scarifying surprises, a brimming tumbler of arsenic and Schweppes...
...with gimmicks that never really succeeded in disguising the abject sleaziness of his movies. In The House on Haunted Hill, he announced a new process called "Emerge," which turned out to be a phosphorescent skeleton strung on wires and sent scurrying over the heads of the audience. In The Tingler, Castle himself appeared at the beginning to warn audiences they would receive what turned out to be-quite literally-a shock. Selected seats were wired, and when the monster was unleashed in the film certain members of the audience got a mild jolt...