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Fetch him back! Let him not go!

No 167 - Don't Look Now Director - Nicolas Roeg Once upon a time, in 2005, I went to Venice with my University. It is a beautiful city filled with shops full of beautiful masks . However, during our travels we went on a gondola trip. A cheap gondola trip. We learnt a valuable lesson. Don't trust a cheap gondolier . It was not long before we were completely lost and wandering the back streets of the slowly sinking city. As we got ever lost in the twists and turns of the residential area, a small girl ran out wearing a red mac. We nearly imploded in fear. This is the lasting effect that this film has. It is not right to call this film a horror film, though it does deal with very real horrors. There is one scene that is probably more famous (and more parodied) than any other scene, the great twist, shock revelation at the end, which is a shocking and horrific moment. However I would like you to cast it from your mind and look at the rest of the film. Rather than jumps and scar...