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The Fountainhead (1949)
Grist for McCarthyism's Mil
You see there are great individuals that society's conforming and sniveling weaklings attempt try to drag down to their level. There you have the plot of the Fountainhead and every Ayn Rand piece of tripe she ever wrote.. This movie, made in 1949, was perfect grist for McCarthy and House Un-American Activities Committee's mill, Ironically, it was those writers and directors who refused to turn on their colleagues when dragged before this committee that were the real heroes of this poisonous era of Red Scare politics.,
Damned by Dawn (2009)
Should have been a short
The first thirty minutes or so of this movie are genuinely frightening with a murderous creature roaming through a house as several of the main characters desperately try to avoid her detection. But then it takes a nosedive into predictability and banality with amateurish computer generated images of banshees, skeletons,corpses, and, oh yes, thousands of centipedes and cockroaches pouring out of victims' mouths and other natural and human made orifices. If the director and screenwriter had jettisoned the low grade technology and focused on developing some of the intriguing possibilities introduced in the opening sequences, the movie would probably have been a whole lot satisfying. As it is, however, it ends up being just a tad better than the run-of-the-mill slasher movie. One hopes that future efforts by the director will yield better results.