Pulling Focus: The Night of the Hunter

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“Dream, little one, dream Oh, the hunter in the night Fills your childish heart with fright Fear is only a dream So dream, little one, dream…” Those lines, from the score “Lullaby”, written by Walter Schumann, are profoundly unsettling, partially because a choir of children credulously sing them, but also because of the creepy-crawly context […]

10 Reasons Why “The Night of the Hunter” is a Classic of American Cinema

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“The Night of the Hunter” is Charles Laughton’s Southern Gothic masterpiece of American cinema and is sadly the only film he ever directed. A horror film of its time that meshes fantastical, dream-like visuals along with the terror of a religious zealot. The film stars Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell that […]