According to the trailers and TV spots in the extras, “it’s the terror that hides inside your mind” — oh, OK, that clears it up. It matters not, because it’s a good movie, dangerously low IMDb rating be damned. The Gothic ghost story with then-newfangled slasher elements looks great on Blu-ray, which is more than […]
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The Night Digger
Although best-known as the creator of the enduring children’s characters Willy Wonka, Fantastic Mr. Fox and James (he of “and the Giant Peach” fame), writer Roald Dahl more than dipped his toes in darker, more adult works. One of those, “The Night Digger,” was a 1971 British thriller starring his then-wife, Patricia Neal, following her […]