This movie influenced all of horror cinema and the general public never saw it

Do you know the British director Nicolas Roeg? He created the perfect masterpiece to start your Halloween viewing: the still very little known Do’t Look Back, or Don’t look now In English with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. And if I don’t convince you, you will jump that 23 times!

The plot concerns a couple, John and Laura Baxter, who tragically lose their little daughter who accidentally drowned. Devastated, the two grieving parents travel to Venice as John must rebuild a church there that has fallen into disrepair. There, Laura meets two rather mysterious sisters who claim that they can force her to contact her dead daughter. John takes a dim view of this and worries about his wife’s health…while realizing that the person in red may be following her.

This film is generally considered one of the great horror films of its time, the 70s. The aspect of the “investigation” carried out by John to identify the figure in red is reminiscent of giallo, an almost experimental form of thriller that was current at the time. Italy and the “spiritualism” and “occult” aspect is close to the atmosphere of the Hammer company’s fantasy films, which would then be in decline. That is because of the influences, but what is the specific person do not turn around?

Foreshadowing the cinema of Brian de Palma and referring to a subject dear to Hitchcock, Nicolas Roeg interrogates the question of vision and the human eye with this film. Can we believe what we see, even though what we see is impossible? Do characters who think they can see well open their eyes wide enough? One of the mediums Laura meets is blind, but seems to see more than characters without her disabilities.

Don’t Look Back Creators and filmmakers are often referred to as their work. This is especially true of Justin Triet or Danny Boyle, to the point where they are involved in bonuses. French release of the film on physical mediabut ryan murphy Obsessed with the movie or even Edgar Wright, who adores the film and its editing. In 2023, the film was chosen again The best British film ever made.

If you’re looking for movies for Halloween, know that there are currently twenty feature horror movies in theaters, and if you don’t look back, it’s not available in this selection or platform, but you can easily find the Potemkin edition of the movie, with Boyle and Triet’s bonus features, for around twenty euros.