Halloween Horror Marathon: The Amazing Transparent Man

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It’s especially interesting to think 1960’s The Amazing Transparent Man came out the same year as Psycho. The two films couldn’t be more different, despite both being black and white, low budget scare pictures. Psycho essentially redefined the thriller picture for the next — well, forever, really — and managed to achieve a massive level of discomfort and fear, while not really showing much of anything. In its most famous scene, Hitchcock let the mind create the actual horrific stabbing, while cutting away at the last minute.
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