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THE SENTINEL (1977) ~MICHAEL WINNER
THE TENANT (1976) ~ROMAN POLANSKI
Written,
directed by, and starring the man himself, Roman Polanski remains to be
one of my favorite directors. When asked what the scariest movie I have
ever seen is, I usually reply with this one. Polanski has been through
enough horrible shit he knows all about terror and psychological stress,
and this movie is all about a man's breakdown. Polanski plays
Trelkovsky, a man who rents an apartment where the previous tenant
recently committed suicide. The rudeness of the other tenants in the
building begins to get to him, and his starts building this idea in his
head that they forced the deceased woman to commit suicide, and now they
are trying to do it to him, as well. Things really get weird after
sundown, when Trelkovsky is haunted by terrifying and strange
hallucinations and makes a hobby as cross-dressing as the suicide
victim. This movie is as terrifying as it is bizarre, and I fear that it
doesn't get all the appreciation it deserves; so please, do yourself a
favor and watch this film!! ~MR
6 comments:
The Sentinel certainly creeps up on you...the ending is totally insane. And there's some genuinly spooky imagery on this one when she gets visited by a ghost in the middle of the night!
The Tenant is another Polanski masterpiece, part of his 'apartment trilogy', ever seen 'Repulsion'? Highly recommend it! It also takes place in an apartment, but with a woman going out of her mind, I think you will enjoy it if you dug The Tenant. It has a lot of nightmarish images, it gets very surreal, it's in black and white and stars the beautiful Catherine Deneuve.
I have seen Repulsion!!! Loved it. What is the third film in the apartment trilogy?
The Sentinel has all the right elements, but for some reason I couldn't get anything out of it. The Tenant looks great though.
I love both these films, but The Tenant will always be one of my favorites! The anxiety and disorientation that film evokes is pure Polanski genius!
The Sentinel is a great but criminally underrated film!
The third film in the Apartment Trilogy is Rosemary's Baby, which takes place in Rosemary's apartment in New York City, but I'm pretty sure you've already seen that one!
Oh gosh, yes! Thanks for that information, though!!
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