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The Ninth Configuration is far less polished than Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, but the principle is the same.
A better version of this basic story was done 29 years ago by William Peter Blatty: The Ninth Configuration.
Scorsese gets his Hitchcock on.
30 years before the disappointing Shutter Island took viewers to a remote mental asylum with a world-turned-upside-down storyline, William Peter Blatty gave us this...
'The key film I showed Leo and Mark,' Scorsese says, 'was Laura—Dana Andrews, the way he wears his tie, and the way he walks through a room, and he doesn't even look at anybody; he's always playing that little game. He's just trying to get the facts.' But the films, he adds, that he had 'really tied up tight' in mood and tone were the lower-than-low-budget schlockers made in the 1940s by Val Lewton when he was the head of the 'horror department' at RKO Pictures—Cat People, Isle of the Dead, The Seventh Victim and I Walked with a Zombie.
Scorsese gets his Hitchcock on.
'The key film I showed Leo and Mark,' Scorsese says, 'was Laura—Dana Andrews, the way he wears his tie, and the way he walks through a room, and he doesn't even look at anybody; he's always playing that little game. He's just trying to get the facts.' But the films, he adds, that he had 'really tied up tight' in mood and tone were the lower-than-low-budget schlockers made in the 1940s by Val Lewton when he was the head of the 'horror department' at RKO Pictures—Cat People, Isle of the Dead, The Seventh Victim and I Walked with a Zombie.
30 years before the disappointing Shutter Island took viewers to a remote mental asylum with a world-turned-upside-down storyline, William Peter Blatty gave us this...
A better version of this basic story was done 29 years ago by William Peter Blatty: The Ninth Configuration.
The Ninth Configuration is far less polished than Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, but the principle is the same.