The Lodger

worth every penny i rented at the redbox, it kept me guessing until the very end. jack the ripper remake.... Full review

worth every penny i rented at the redbox, it kept me guessing until the very end. jack the ripper remake.... Full review

I've never seen the first, Hichcock version for this movie, but I really love this one. the story is super good, twisted and suspect, but a little bloody. The ending surprised me.... Full review

I've never seen the first, Hichcock version for this movie, but I really love this one. the story is super good, twisted and suspect, but a little bloody. The ending surprised me.... Full review

I consider my self a suspense movie buff and I think this is one of the best suspense movie I have ever seen. All throughout the movie I couldn't guess who could be the killer.... Full review

(There Are Spoilers) Fictional dramatization of the notorious 1888 Whitechapel-Kensington murders attributed to the legendary and infamous "Jack the Ripper" that gives the killer a face a name and a motive. After his beloved brother, whom he loved and worshiped,... Full review

Thanks to Lucien Ballard's atmospheric cinematography of fog-bound Victorian London in the 1880s, THE LODGER emerges as superior melodrama based on Marie Belloc-Lowndes' famous novel. (She's the author of another effective Victorian melodrama that starred Joan Fontaine in the title... Full review

It began, possibly in April 1888 when a woman named Emma Smith died after being stabbed multiple times - possibly by a gang. Smith may have been a prostitute. But it really got underway in August of that year, when... Full review

The legendary true story of 19th century London's "Jack the Ripper" has been told countless times in TV and film. Here, the facts are augmented into more of a character study and an observation of the perceptions and suspicions from... Full review

A tight, terse little black and white film about.....well, about Jack the Ripper. Prostitute victims are transformed into actresses for the film (and obviously for the Code) but it follows somewhat the modus operandi of Jack. You never see the... Full review

Of course, in the world of an egregiously stupid whodunit like David Ondaatje's The Lodger , these are also five signs....Meanwhile, dissatisfied housewife Hope Davis welcomes handsome stranger Simon Baker into her quiet guesthouse rental space.... ... Full Review

what should be a solid cast and wastes both.....he's got no other discernible visual style-much of the picture and lighting has the flat look of a TV movie.... ... Full Review

what should be a solid cast and wastes both.....he's got no other discernible visual style-much of the picture and lighting has the flat look of a TV movie.... ... Full Review

After taking rooms in the house of Cedric Hardwicke and Sara Allgood, Cregar becomes fixated on their dance hall niece, gorgeous Merle Oberon, as the nocturnal Ripper murders (Cregar is a 'doctor' who works at night... The pyrotechnic ending is highlighted by Cregar finishing his beloved concerto at the piano amidst Napier's burning house after musicians, patrons and the rest of the supporting cast have fled. ... Full Review

THE LODGER does feature a couple of musical numbers by Oberon, and the bits of German expressionism in the look makes for some good examples of using shadows and light for mood and effect. Admittedly, this one does have the benefit of a terrific performance by Merle Oberon, and she is almost enough to make this rather redundant film worth watching. ... Full Review

Laird Cregar in The Lodger Director John Brahm's 1944 film version of Marie Belloc Lowndes' chilling 1913 novel The Lodger occupies a unique place in movie history. ... Full Article

Recently released to DVD was a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "The Lodger." The 2008 version stars Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West, and Simon Baker. ... Full Article

By Drew Fitzpatrick • February 10, 2009 Last week, we saw a slew of old titles hitting DVD store shelves in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th flick, which actually doesn't open until this week. ... Full Article

The Lodger is a story that has been told many time throughout the history of movies. I am not an aficionado of "classics" so I'm not going to be comparing the newest version of The Lodger to any past works,... ... Full Article

The latest embellishment of the classic horror tale The Lodger can best be described as Jack the Ripper in Hollywood. The creepy 1913 novel by lurid literary queen Marie Belloc Lowndes, introduced to the silent screen in 1927 by Alfred... ... Full Article

"The Lodger," a 1913 novel more or less about Jack the Ripper, has been made into a movie a number of times. Alfred Hitchcock's silent version was released in 1927; a sound version starring Laird Cregar, that virtuoso of interior... ... Full Article