Man in the Attic (1953)
- Directed by
- Hugo Fregonese
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 52 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A mysterious man rents a room in a Victorian London house. The family becomes suspicious he may be responsible for a series of brutal murders in the area.
tensesuspensefuldarknoirishclaustrophobiceeriemethodicalforeboding
What happens
Man in the Attic is a 1953 American horror film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Jack Palance, Constance Smith and Byron Palmer. The screenplay was by Barré Lyndon and Robert Presnell Jr. based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes which fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings. It had been previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, by John Brahm in 1944; it was again filmed by David Ondaatje in 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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