'Lodger' can't make the cut
di Robert Abele The Los Angeles Times
Now that we live in an age in which slasher flicks are golden oldies that merit retelling (the newly 3-D "My Bloody Valentine," the upcoming "Friday the 13th" remake), there's something almost quaint about the arrival to theaters of "The Lodger."
A West Hollywood-set tale of murdered prostitutes and the gruff detective investigating the crimes (Alfred Molina), writer-director David Ondaatje's film has story tentacles that go way back -- back to the 1927 Alfred Hitchcock silent movie it's repurposing and the Marie Belloc Lowndes novel on which that film was based, back to hard-boiled fiction (Molina's cop is named Chandler) and back to the Jack the Ripper slayings that have fascinated frightmeisters for more than a century. [...]
di Robert Abele, articolo completo (1192 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 23 gennaio 2009
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