1927 · thriller · mystery · silent
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock1h 31m1927
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Our read: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · mystery · silent entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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