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ohthehorror	"M" by Fritz Lang	Lead	[-]
Jun 13 12 4:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Is "M" by Fritz Lang considered a horror film? Either way, what does everyone think about it? Personally, I loved it. It's one of my Peter Lorre favorites.
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Koukol 5		#1	[-]
Jun 13 12 6:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Arguably...yes. M is a great film which was extremely daring for it's time.
Rick		#2	[-]
Jun 13 12 7:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I consider it horror maybe 5 days a week. In other, less silly words, I think it's horror, yes, but juuuuust barely. Really borderline. About as borderline as possible. But it is a very great movie, and Lorre's performance is one of the greatest ever caught on film.
Koukol 5		#3	[-]
Jun 13 12 7:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well it's about a child serial killer. If it doesn't qualify as Horror then Slashers don't either.
PhantomXCI		#4	[-]
Jun 13 12 8:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Strangely, I consider the Lang version to be a horror film, but not the Joseph Losey remake.
ohthehorror		#5	[-]
Jun 13 12 9:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ew, there was a remake? Was it any good?
Rick		#6	[-]
Jun 13 12 9:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remade in '51, I think, by Joe Losey with David Wayne in Lorre's role. It's not bad, but it's also not a patch on the original. And, actually, I agree with Jay. The remake seems much more just a crime drama, not really horror at all. I attribute that both to the overall approach and to the lead performance. David Wayne was a fine actor, but brings nowhere near the desperate intensity that Lorre had.
ohthehorror		#7	[-]
Jun 13 12 10:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Meh, I won't bother then.
Tumak		#8	[-]
Jun 14 12 11:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ohthehorror wrote: Is "M" by Fritz Lang considered a horror film? The character of Inspector Lohmann also appears in several Dr. Mabuse movies. So there's a tenuous science fiction angle to it, too!
flashback		#9	[-]
Jun 18 12 12:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i got a vhs of it at a flea market the other weekend for 6 dollars.
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lencandraw		#10	[-]
Jun 23 12 5:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Child molesters/ killers always say "horror" to me. We tend to think supernatural type monsters in our world of horror, and I can see that point. I DO consider this movie horror, but certainly NOT supernatural.
flashback		#11	[-]
Jun 23 12 5:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	in my opinion the most chilling murder scene , in any movie i saw,is the one off screen with the little girl in the bushes in the beginning of 'M".
ryanbrennan		#12	[-]
Jun 23 12 5:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I watched Jean-Luc Godard's CONTEMPT the other night which features Fritz Lang as himself portraying the director of a ULYSSES film produced by Jack Palance's producer character. When complimented on one of his films Lang responds, "I prefer M." I wonder if that was a scripted line or reflected Lang's true feelings?
ohthehorror		#13	[-]
Jun 23 12 9:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I agree, Flashback.
Monsterpal		#14	[-]
Jun 24 12 10:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ryanbrennan wrote: I watched Jean-Luc Godard's CONTEMPT the other night which features Fritz Lang as himself portraying the director of a ULYSSES film produced by Jack Palance's producer character. When complimented on one of his films Lang responds, "I prefer M." I wonder if that was a scripted line or reflected Lang's true feelings? LE MEPRIS (CONTEMPT) is a great film in its own right, but I've always wanted to see the non-existent version of the ODYSSEY Lang was making.
Omega Man		#15	[-]
Jun 25 12 8:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"M" is a superb film... just definitely not one to watch while trying to quit smoking! "Dammit, it's jammed!" www.eccentric-cinema.com
Gojira		#16	[-]
Jun 25 12 10:35 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There's actually a Fractured Flickers episode where Lorre is trying to quit smoking rather than murdering.
Koukol 5		#17	[-]
Jun 25 12 1:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	CONTEMPT is probably the only Godard film I like.
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