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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 371837" data-attributes="member: 57984">Redux post (just because):And wouldn&#039;t SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964, of course) qualify as a hag horror, despite its classy ambience?It&#039;s a terrific little film about an alleged psychic (Kim Stanley, who got at Oscar nod for this role) who convinces her browbeaten hubby (Richard Attenborough, who also produced) to kidnap a child -- in a scene I find very disturbing -- to prove her clairvoyant skills. Bryan Forbes directs and scripts, John Barry provides the haunting score.It&#039;s been called &quot;a ghost story without a ghost&quot; (a common vibe for an early-&#039;60s thriller), with London wrapped in winter&#039;s chill.Stanley is excellent in her narcissistic neurosis (although Katharine Hepburn found her rehearsal style so bizarre that she had Stanley fired off of A DELICATE BALANCE in 1973 and replaced by Kate &quot;Aunt Lil&quot; Reid who is also excellent) and the atmosphere in all its cold war glory is as thick as cinema mood can get.[MEDIA=youtube]bFIfh3JBooA[/MEDIA]<img src="https://i1.wp.com/gofatherhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/seance-wet-afternoon-publicity-still-photo.jpeg?resize=900%2C469&amp;ssl=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 371837, member: 57984"] [B][I]Redux post[/I][/B][I] (just because):[/I] And wouldn't SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964, of course) qualify as a hag horror, despite its classy ambience? It's a terrific little film about an alleged psychic (Kim Stanley, who got at Oscar nod for this role) who convinces her browbeaten hubby (Richard Attenborough, who also produced) to kidnap a child -- in a scene I find very disturbing -- to prove her clairvoyant skills. Bryan Forbes directs and scripts, John Barry provides the haunting score. It's been called "a ghost story without a ghost" (a common vibe for an early-'60s thriller), with London wrapped in winter's chill. Stanley is excellent in her narcissistic neurosis (although Katharine Hepburn found her rehearsal style so bizarre that she had Stanley fired off of A DELICATE BALANCE in 1973 and replaced by Kate "Aunt Lil" Reid who is also excellent) and the atmosphere in all its cold war glory is as thick as cinema mood can get. [MEDIA=youtube]bFIfh3JBooA[/MEDIA] [IMG]https://i1.wp.com/gofatherhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/seance-wet-afternoon-publicity-still-photo.jpeg?resize=900%2C469&ssl=1[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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