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

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)

Trailer

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