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- According to an extra featurette on the film's DVD release called "Defining Moments: Writing and Directing The Strangers," the screenplay was inspired by a real-life incident that Bryan Bertino had experienced as a child.
www.looper.com/428665/the-disturbing-real-life-inspiration-for-the-strangers/
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The Comfort of Strangers is a 1990 psychological thriller film directed by Paul Schrader, and starring Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, and Helen Mirren. The screenplay by Harold Pinter was adapted from the 1981 novel of the same name by Ian McEwan .
My take on the movie and book was that he deliberately wanted it vague, but circling around issues of cult and human sacrifice without spelling it out. This perfect couple were some kind of sacrifice to cause or god unknown. Early McEwan is much darker than his popular later work.
Apr 12, 1991 · “The Comfort of Strangers” contains the elements to be a violent crime story, or a lurid horror film. Paul Schrader, who directed it, is not interested in such a mundane approach. He sees the story as literate, elegant eroticism.
The Comfort of Strangers. Adapting the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter lends his trademark unnerving dialogue and air of creeping menace to this spellbinding study of power, control, and the frighteningly thin line between pleasure and pain.
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The Comfort of Strangers: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren. Colin and Mary retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with lyrical local bar owner Robert and his odd, sexually frank wife Caroline leads them into a world of intrigue where their darkest ...
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- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Paul Schrader
- 1991-04
Mar 29, 1991 · “The Comfort of Strangers” (AMC Century 14) is a movie about seduction: evil seduction. Set in a Venice of pristine city and seascapes, picture-postcard views tinged with dread, it’s a...
An Italian diplomat's son (Christopher Walken) follows and seduces English lovers (Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson) in Venice. Rent The Comfort of Strangers on Fandango at Home, Prime...
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