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horror / drama / camp

posted 15 years ago by onepotato2
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A nice mix. Watching it tonight for the tenth time in two decades and thinking.... It has an elegiac tone for Charlotte's lost life. The plot thread about global notoriety & murder lore in the modern mass mediated world is much more interesting than a viewer of campy movie would expect.

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Jewel Mayhew, who gets off easy, is horrible. She lets Charlotte's entire life go by, and be ruined by accusations and mental problems; over her husband's infidelity, and she's already killed him! And the movies poignant moments highlight that loss. Bette Davis's groggy reaction to the child intruder is well done (She has work hard to remember what time she's in), and her tears under the credits set the tone.

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[–] lastmidnite2 15 years ago

Isn't it funny, I've never had anything but sympathy for Jewel. I like her.

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[–] moosefeathers 15 years ago

okay. but, i don't think that Jewel was a true sociopath in the sense of the word. She was a victim here, on many levels.

she was cheated on by husband, most likely manipulated by Sam Hollis, blackmailed by Miriam and finally died Stoney Broke.

her best line, "....this long disease, my life....." interesting.