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“Horrible Mistake”
Jacques Tourneur directed some cult classics under the producer tutelage of Val Lewton in the early 40s, “The Cat People” and “I Walked With a Zombie.” And in 1957 he did “Night of the Demon”/ “Curse of the Demon,” (UK) which I saw with my parents. My father was surprised and let down that Dana Andrews was in this horror picture as if had chosen to be mired in B movies. Amazing what one dredges up from childhood. Andrews had been in “The Best Years of our lIves,”1946, “Laura,” 1944, “The Ox-Bow Incident,”1943, and “A Walk in the Sun,” 1946, most of…
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By Fran Lewis, Reviewer, on Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Self Awareness,October 3, 2012 By Samfreene – See all my reviews This review is from: This Möbius Strip of Ifs (Paperback) This Mobius Strip of Ifs Author: Mathias Freese What if everyone lived within the inside of a box so thick that they could not see what was behind the corners or upper lid and never realizing what lies behind the confines of this box? What if you world was so fragile and breakable that all you see is what is right in front of you and not what is around you? What if you…
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Reviewer Lisa Taylor at Writer’s Block Party
This Möbius Strip of Ifs by Matthias Freese This book was provided to me free of charge by the author or publisher in exchange for an honest review. This review or parts of this review may be used elsewhere without my express permission as long as “Writer’s Block Party” or “Lisa Taylor” is credited, with a link back to this post. First, I just want to share with you a sample of the description given for this book on amazon: “In this impressive and varied collection of creative essays, Mathias B. Freese jousts with American culture. A mixture of the…
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Sisyphus on a Slippery Slope
You can suggest a better title for this post if you choose to. However, for now it is a temporary tag. Only in the past two weeks have I “returned” to my normal self, whatever that really is. I can walk bi-pedally now, most if not all the pain is gone, I’m off a muscle relaxant and an opiod, Ativan as well, and an anxiety attack has not returned but like distant thunder the thought of it rattles me at moments. As Chesterton so incisively and wittily said, “I am cultivating the faculty of patient expectancy.” Quite frankly I have been…