Thats the house, the house basically is a sinister, sinister trap.
Heres what he had to say.
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She was the grand master of Gothic Romance.
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She was intensely private and remained a bit of a mystery most of her life.
Many shots strive to capture his pictorial beauty.
Caspar David Friedrich
The apex of Romantic painting.
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His work is so evocative and loaded with atmosphere.
Gothic Romance has a powerful sense of loss and melancholy.
Along with Piranesi, he portrayed ruins with a vivid sense of dark poetry.
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Bava is equally if not more effective in black and white.
She heard the bedsprings creak and could smell her faint perfume.
Clayton uses each shot with great precision.
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Jane Eyre
One of the most influential Gothic tales.
It permeatesRebecca,I Walked with a Zombieand evenThe Secret Gardenin an oblique way.
I paraphrase it in several moments ofCrimson Peakand did a variation of the famous rib-cage-to-rib-cage monologue of Mr Rochester.
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Lucille collects butterflies and believes herself to be a powerful, nocturnal creature, much like a moth.
She sees Edith as a fragile, silly thing that can be easily killed and mounted.
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