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Featuring Robert Mitchum's formidable performance as a child-hunting preacher, The Night of the Hunter is a disturbing look at good and evil.
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Mr. Charles Laughton directs, and, since Mr. Laughton is a highly intelligent man, nothing that he does is without interest. The Night of the Hunter is indeed none the less interesting for being a failure. October 2, 2020 | Full Review…
Mr. Charles Laughton directs, and, since Mr. Laughton is a highly intelligent man, nothing that he does is without interest. The Night of the Hunter is indeed none the less interesting for being a failure.
Times (UK) Staff
It is doubtful that you will ever hear the old hymn, 'Learning,' again without recalling the gaunt, flapping figure of Preacher Powell as he lams it out in the dark night -- to the terror of the listening youngsters June 28, 2019 | Full Review…
It is doubtful that you will ever hear the old hymn, 'Learning,' again without recalling the gaunt, flapping figure of Preacher Powell as he lams it out in the dark night -- to the terror of the listening youngsters
Philip K. Scheuer
It's overwrought and lurid; the story is grotesque and so are the characters. It's unlike anything else before and since. And that is why this strident psychological horror stands up now as one of the great pieces of American genre cinema. October 5, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's overwrought and lurid; the story is grotesque and so are the characters. It's unlike anything else before and since. And that is why this strident psychological horror stands up now as one of the great pieces of American genre cinema.
Wendy Ide
One of the great movie horror tales, with one of the greatest of all movie villains. October 14, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
One of the great movie horror tales, with one of the greatest of all movie villains.
Michael Wilmington
It is both Christian parable and folk tale, with its hymns, homilies, and orphans carried to safety by nature's benevolence; but it is also grounded in the social concerns of its makers. January 17, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It is both Christian parable and folk tale, with its hymns, homilies, and orphans carried to safety by nature's benevolence; but it is also grounded in the social concerns of its makers.
Mark Asch
A stunning piece of work, with the shadows of German expressionism and a compositional sense comparable to the work of George Stevens: it trumps its own noir cynicism with a thrilling and plausible idealism in the final moments. January 16, 2014 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A stunning piece of work, with the shadows of German expressionism and a compositional sense comparable to the work of George Stevens: it trumps its own noir cynicism with a thrilling and plausible idealism in the final moments.
Peter Bradshaw
The Night of the Hunter doesn't altogether, as they say, "come off," but it is a film of extremely individual flavour, and its daring, its indifference to convention, make it uniquely surprising for a Hollywood production today. October 2, 2020 | Full Review…
The Night of the Hunter doesn't altogether, as they say, "come off," but it is a film of extremely individual flavour, and its daring, its indifference to convention, make it uniquely surprising for a Hollywood production today.
Gavin Lambert
The strong dramatic values inherent in the plot have been dissipated by the director's striving for symbolic touches and for unusual camera effects, as well as by the fact that the characterizations are not clearly defined and lack conviction. October 2, 2020 | Full Review…
The strong dramatic values inherent in the plot have been dissipated by the director's striving for symbolic touches and for unusual camera effects, as well as by the fact that the characterizations are not clearly defined and lack conviction.
P.S. Harrison
If you enjoy a moody, and often evocative drama, The Night of the Hunter will appeal to you. When Mr. Laughton learns to tell a story through his actors rather than symbolism, something very fine will result. October 2, 2020 | Full Review…
If you enjoy a moody, and often evocative drama, The Night of the Hunter will appeal to you. When Mr. Laughton learns to tell a story through his actors rather than symbolism, something very fine will result.
Frank Morriss
Mitchum's devilish reverend is the most impressive aspect, rapidly surpassing the uniqueness of the strange account itself. August 23, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Mitchum's devilish reverend is the most impressive aspect, rapidly surpassing the uniqueness of the strange account itself.
Mike Massie
Like the best horror, it eschews jump scares in favor of creeping dread and unsettling elements. July 1, 2020 | Full Review…
Like the best horror, it eschews jump scares in favor of creeping dread and unsettling elements.
CJ Sheu
Few [films] reach the level of magnificence and genius as the suspenseful, alternately lyrical and visually jarring American gothic creepfest, The Night of the Hunter. July 25, 2019 | Full Review…
Few [films] reach the level of magnificence and genius as the suspenseful, alternately lyrical and visually jarring American gothic creepfest, The Night of the Hunter.
Leslie Combemale
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