{"id":44208,"date":"2026-04-07T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44208"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:07:08","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/04\/07\/belated-movie-reviews-935\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When everyone around you has frozen, you know horror is right around the corner.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The Evil Eye<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>(or The Girl Who Knew Too Much<\/b><\/i>; Italian; 1963) chronicles a visit to Rome in the 1950s by a young American girl, Nora. Her aunt dies; she’s mugged; she witnesses a murder, a knife plum in the back; doubting police; noises in the night at domiciles; etc etc.<\/p>\n

And all of this, why? I’m not sure. It does seem to belong in the horror genre, but of a different era, as she’s not so much emotionally blasted as puzzled. Wikipedia<\/strong> <\/em>calls it giallo<\/i><\/span><\/b> <\/a>…<\/p>\n

… a genre that often contains slasher<\/a>, thriller<\/a>, psychological horror<\/a>, psychological thriller<\/a>, sexploitation<\/a>, and, less frequently, supernatural horror<\/a> elements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t notice any of the supernatural horror elements, but we viewed this a while ago, too, so I may have forgotten them. I recall there’s some spooky noises. Sort of. It’s not all that memorable.<\/p>\n

I thought it was well-acted, with a view into the post-war Italian culture. Perhaps the horror is a metaphor for the recent war, or the madness of putting Mussolini<\/a> in charge prior; however, I have little contact with Italian culture, now or then, so I have no certainty.<\/p>\n

And will it appeal to you? Do you like old horror? The answer to the latter may also appeal to the former.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Evil Eye (or The Girl Who Knew Too Much; Italian; 1963) chronicles a visit to Rome in the 1950s by a young American girl, Nora. Her aunt dies; she’s mugged; she witnesses a murder, a knife plum in the back; doubting police; noises in the night at domiciles; etc \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44269,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44208\/revisions\/44269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}