The Lodger (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 13, 2016
- Originally Released: 2016
- Label: Kl Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | George Sanders, Merle Oberon, Laird Cregar, Cedric Hardwicke & Sara Allgood | |
Directed by | John Brahm | |
Screenwriting by | Barré Lyndon | |
Composition by | Hugo Friedhofer | |
Director of Photography: | Lucien Ballard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Horror motifs pile up in this stylishly directed, supernatural tale. It's a cold burn of a film though, and I felt dispassionate about the fate of the isolated teenage twins.
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Caution Spoilers
The audience will find here a couple of sequences with a very good atmosphere, a couple of quite imaginative sequences. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Cinegarage
Rating: 2/5 --
A case of less not being more; the audience lulled into a state of indifference that O'Malley's suspended underwater climax cannot revive.
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Flickering Myth
A near-miss for this hardcore horror and Gothic thriller fan. It tries to get underneath, but remains skin-deep.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 3/5 --
A breathtakingly beautiful film, dripping in atmosphere and mood and a quiet, understated dread that permeates every frame of the story.
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Daily Dead
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The Lodgers disappoints on a number of levels, many of which have more to do with the limitations of its creators' imagination than the apparently minuscule budget.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 4.5/10 --
Strong visuals alone can't save The Lodgers from being a dreadfully average and dull horror experience
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Film Pulse
Product Description:
THE LODGER was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was the best (even allowing for the excellence of the 1925 Alfred Hitchcock adaptation). Laird Cregar stars as the title character, a mysterious, secretive young man who rents a flat in the heart of London's Whitechapel district. The Lodger's arrival coincides with a series of brutal murders, in which the victims are all female stage performers. None of this fazes Kitty (Merle Oberon), the daughter of a "good family" who insists upon pursuing a singing and dancing career. Scotland Yard inspector John Warwick (George Sanders), in love with Kitty, worries about her safety and works day and night to solve the murders. All the while, Kitty draws inexorably closer to The Lodger, who seems to have some sort of vendetta on his mind'..Some slight anachronisms aside (for example, the villain falls off a bridge that hadn't yet been built at the time of the story), THE LODGER is pulse-pounding entertainment, with a disturbingly brilliant performance by the late, great Laird Cregar.