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It’s been a busy week at A Damn Fine Cup of Culture, starting with Alan going to Manderley again, in the latest instalment of One Best Picture After Another. Just how well does Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) hold up?
This was followed by the September instalment of our Shortcuts: brief takes on what we’ve seen, read, played etc. recently. This one included everything from the horrors of liminal spaces and murderous ethnoreligious fanaticism to the horrors of being discovered by a bunch of rich-kid hipsters decades after you were briefly famous as a New York poet.
Then, on Friday, Melanie wrote about how books can be the best mood-altering substance. She also mentions Terry Brooks’ Sword of Shannara being “legit crappy” – but that’s really the only lead I’ve got for a trailer, so…
But wait, that wasn’t it for the week: we also released our October podcast, delving into spooking matters, as befits the month we’ve just started. So, let’s end this extended trailer post on the three films we discussed for our Halloween podcast!
