The night visitor 1971 rar

Ruth Mahler Bengt Ottekil. Glazier Hemisphere Pictures. Sweden USA. A very dry and stuffy thriller about a man who escapes from an asylum to kill some folk and frame his brother-in-law.

It's kind of ridiculous and not very interesting given that the audience knows what is going on from the start. Oddly the only info they choose to keep from us is character background that fleshes out the reason for the whole mess, but does that really matter? Von Sydow is killing people, that is certain.

The 'why' isn't very important, but the structure indicates that the movie sure thinks it is. Then the final reveal is handled with such utter disregard that one gets the impression that no one cares. Way to leave us in the lurch,…. For those that like their thrillers free from Hollywood fluff. A super dry, very cold and at times quite tense little murder mystery.

Not because of who did it, the questions here -initially- are why and how. One of its strong points is the opening sequence. Man in his undies running around in snowy landscapes with the wind whistling, apparently escaping from something, but with a goal. He knows what he's doing and it ain't pretty. It had me hooked right from the start.

Sure, you can pick this plot apart if you want to, good for you, but I don't care about that when I get to watch a chilling and detailed prison escape like the one here. Influenced by classic French crime films, no doubt. There's some awkward acting going on Per Oscarsson mainly which spoils an aspect of the film's climax, but other than that I had a good time with The Night Visitor. The Night Visitor is a straight horror movie and a kind of pseudo-Bergman film rolled into one.

Meanwhile in a home nearby Liv Ullmann cowers with her husband and sister, racked with paranoia at the knowledge of Salem's presence in the looming asylum next door. And their fear is justified, since Salem does manage to escape periodically, looking frozen wearing only boxers and a t-shirt, skulking spider-like across snowy fields, to enact bloody revenge on the people he imagines responsible….

Despite a lot of poor acting from some of the supporting cast, the story itself is great, and maintains a high level of intrigue and tension throughout. The best part is the Bresson-esque prison break scene, which that alone makes it worthy of a watch. Having been wrongly convicted of an axe murder and locked away in the local insane asylum, Salem has escaped and has come back for revenge against those who pinned the crime on him. Or so it appears, because when the Police Force both of them check up on these allegations that he was responsible for a new rash of murders, it turns out that he was safely locked away in the Colditz-like institution all along.

And that's not all that's odd, the entire movie is predicated upon the notion that a man can get…. Review by fulci Mostly it consists of Sydow roaming around the Scandinavian countryside in his underwear, he looks like a certifiable loon but it's not exactly thrilling. There's a rather useless investigation subplot considering we know what Sydow is up to from the very beginning. Overall just blah, Ullman is annoying and the scariest thing on display here are Sydow's pale spindly legs.

Creepy minimalist piano score from Henry Mancini is effective. An odd note of trivia this was originally going to be a Steve McQueen vehicle made in Em honra de Max Von Sydow - filme 3.

The Night Visitor. Clip Photos Top cast Edit. Max von Sydow Salem as Salem. Trevor Howard Inspector as Inspector. Per Oscarsson Dr. Anton Jenks as Dr. Anton Jenks. Rupert Davies Mr. Clemens as Mr. Andrew Keir Dr. Kemp as Dr. Jim Kennedy Carl as Carl. Arthur Hewlett Pop as Pop. Gretchen Franklin Mrs. Hansen as Mrs. Torens as Mr. Torens as Bjorn Watt-Boolsen. Laslo Benedek. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder.

Falsely convicted under a plea of "guilty due to insanity", he does not plan to let his sister and her husband forget that they were responsible for the murder of a farmhand and for his cruel imprisonment in the asylum. If your skin doesn't crawl, its on too tight! Did you know Edit. Goofs The police never see the many footprints Salem left in the snow. Quotes The Parrot : Salem.

Salem, come to supper! User reviews 41 Review. Top review. So potent, I remember it well after 43 years. We actually saw this on original release in in the old downtown Tucson theater.