Don't Look Now
Perhaps best known for what at the time was a very explicit sex scene (Sutherland and Christie were wrongly rumored to have practiced strict realism), Don't Look Now is also renowned for the bloodless horror it creates through psychological means. The film is just plain creepy, with an uneasy sense of terror lurking around every corner of a cold, dank Venice, whose Gothic facades are used to exemplary effect (anyone who's ever spent any time there knows how easy it is to get lost) along with series of peculiar and sinister characters who keep the story off-balance and the whole milieu very unsettling. Unfortunately, Don't Look Now doesn't have much of a narrative, and former cinematographer Roeg (whose previous film Walkabout is considered a masterpiece by many) isn't really trying to tell it anyway. Despite the film's very effective creep factor, the lack of a substantial storyline is nearly its undoing.
- August 22, 2005
DVD Extras
Absolutely nothing; very disappointing for a film with so much history.