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unusual facts about suspense film



Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a 1981 made-for-television suspense/horror film directed by veteran novelist Frank De Felitta (author of Audrey Rose) from a script by J.D. Feigelson.

This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get

PiL was supposed to score the soundtrack for the 1983 suspense film Copkiller, starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon, who worked on the material with his band mates Keith Levene and Martin Atkins (over the phone, by long distance).


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Blow the Man Down

The song is sung ominously by a zither-playing blind street singer in the opening scene of Val Lewton's 1943 suspense film, "The Ghost Ship."

Brome Lake, Quebec

In 1975, Knowlton was also used as one of the sites for filming the Jodie Foster suspense film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.

Castel del Monte, Abruzzo

Castel del Monte is the principal location of The American, a suspense film, released September 1, 2010, directed by Anton Corbijn.

Crazy as Hell

Crazy as Hell, released in 2002 (New York and L.A. only), is a horror suspense film that is based on the 1982 novel by Jeremy Leven and follows Dr. Ty Adams (played by Michael Beach), an aggressive and overconfident psychiatrist who is producing a documentary film about a nearby state-run mental hospital.

John Sturges

He made imaginative use of the widescreen CinemaScope format by placing Spencer Tracy alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination in 1955.

Open Grave

Open Grave is a horror suspense film directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego.

The Baltimore Waltz

Assisting the pair is the mysterious Third Man, a reference to the classic suspense film starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, to which Vogel frequently alludes in detail.

The Locket

The Locket is a 1946 suspense film directed by John Brahm, starring Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, and Gene Raymond, and released by RKO Pictures.