Phobia
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
December 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Huston’s career took one of its most dramatic left turns with this sci-fi-inflected horror film about a psychiatrist embroiled in a sinister murder plot.
Huston’s career took one of its most dramatic left turns with this sci-fi-inflected psychological horror movie, a Canadian production starring Paul Michael Glaser of Starsky & Hutch. After a Toronto-based psychiatrist (Glaser) recruits a handful of jailed criminals for an experimental clinical study on the treatment of phobias, his patients start getting killed off, à la Se7en, by means modeled after their fears. Coming 18 years after Freud and four before the psychodramatic achievements of Under the Volcano and The Dead, Phobia finds Huston further experimenting with different ways of probing and dissecting human consciousness.
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