... as scriptwriter, Hitchcock was able to infuse what are, in some ways, characteristically dark stylistic and thematic tra! its with effective local colour, to produce an encyclopaedically playful gallop through "genre cinema".(1) In so doing, he achieved one of the most interesting and detailed portraits of a disappearing small-town American milieu. This complex rendering of what might appear to be simple ... as a subtle and humorous relation to both David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) and Tim Hunter's River's Edge (1987). It is also prescient of the stream of family-obsessed films which de...

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