When I arrived back in Seattle last week, I found the 7th season of Afred Hitchcock Presents waiting for me, courtesy of Antonio Lorusso. And a few hours before I left to return to Sunset, the postman dropped a copy of Cabin in the Woods into my mailbox, courtesy of Mike Siegel. Thanks so much for the birthday presents, guys! Both of them arrived a few weeks after my birthday because both came from the UK, despite both being American productions (this is especially weird in the case of Alfred Hitchcock Presents because every season but the seventh is available in region 1 DVD). As for Cabin, I’ve heard a lot of good things about it, but have somehow managed to avoid spoilers for the past 9 years, so I’m quite looking forward to viewing it for the first time; after half a century of horror viewing I’m pretty hard to scare or even surprise.
Diary #596
November 30, 2021 by Maggie McNeill
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For slowly and ominously revealed surprises, the 1975 horror and car chase movie Race with the Devil starring Peter Fonda and Loretta Swit might surprise you. Just don’t look up any plot summaries.
It has a little of everything, from motorcycles to rattlesnakes, and plenty of satanic ritual murders.
The mood of the entirely fictional story is an interesting precursor to the 1980s childcare sexual abuse moral panic. Strong hint: the people we most trust are all in on horrible crimes.