![]() ![]() McGrath’s history with Cordova stretches back years, and now, it’s up to him to find out just how bad this extra-bad version of Hitchcock really is. ![]() Scott McGrath, reporter on the way to being washed-up, finds cause for salvation of a kind in the poor young woman’s demise. Cordova himself hasn’t granted an interview since 1977, when Rolling Stone published his description of his favorite frame as “sovereign, deadly, perfect.” Cordova is thrust back into the limelight when his daughter is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in Chinatown. Filmmaker Stanislas Cordova has made a specialty of goose bumps for years as Pessl writes, he’s churned out things that keep people from entering dark rooms alone, things about which viewers stay shtum ever after. In her sophomore effort, Pessl ( Special Topics in Calamity Physics, 2006) hits the scary ground running. Think Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King meet Guillermo del Toro as channeled by Klaus Kinski. An inventive-if brooding, strange and creepy-adventure in literary terror. ![]()
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