The Haunting of Julia
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In Theaters : 11 September, 1981 |
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Scary as hell
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This movie should be on DVD. Richard Loncraine successfully translates Peter Straub's magnificent novel "Julia" to the screen with Mia Farrow at her post-"Rosemary's Baby" best. Watching this creepy, elegantly demented little train-wreck is not unlike having a particularly frightening experience under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug, I imagine.
Julia Lofting, a wealthy American woman living in London, loses her child in a tragic and ugly accident (the girl chokes to death on a piece of fruit in the opening scene) and things spiral downward from there to say the very least.
Divorcing her insensitive and callous husband, Lofting elects to rent an apartment which was formerly inhabited by a dysfunctional family with a little girl who also died very young and who was quite troublesome--involved, in fact, in the murder of another boy. Farrow's already unstable character becomes obsessed with the girl and the rest is, you might say, supernatural history. The mood of the film is tragic, ethereal, dreamlike, and nasty as hell. The last scene will not leave the viewer's mind for quite awhile.
With all the trash out there called "horror" these days, it really puzzles me why they don't dredge this one up and throw it onto the shelves in a decent format. It is a superb example of what the macabre can do in the hands of the right director. A must see. |
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