1975 · anthology · matheson · tv-horror
Trilogy of Terror
Directed by Dan Curtis1h 12m1975
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
Our read: Trilogy of Terror (1975) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive anthology · matheson · tv-horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured anthology / matheson, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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