Yes Tourneur adaptation is considerated as an horror movie. I
first saw the movie; for me it was a good movie but not
frightening. After I read the book. Black Alibi was first
Woolrich novel I read and I really loved. After it i read all
the Woolrich novels and short stories. When I was twenty he
was my favourite author. Black Alibi got a very hard suspens;
it's awfull because every chapter pr鳥nts a future victime and
the reader knows she going to die. I remember particulary the
murder of a little girl at the moment she is coming home, at
her entrance door. Woolrrich is pkaying with the reader
because there everis a possibility for the victim to survive
and escape at the killer. but the posibility never works and
the victim dies.
It's a crime story beacause the solution is
totally rational. In fact it's the story of a serial killer
who gets a jaguar as Black Alibi.
Fabienne
a33@live.com> a 飲it :
This is a good point. If we were playing the old
which-one-does-not-belong game with Woolrich's "black series"
(The Bride Wore Black, Rendezvous in Black, The Black
Curtain, etc.), I'd choose The Black Alibi. I myself enjoyed
this book as much as the others (in terms of style and
atmosphere, it is consistent with the others), but the
pleasures it offers set it somewhat apart from the rest of
Woolrich's black series.
Tourneur's adaptation of the story is generally categorized
as horror, isn't it?
I've just begun reading a paperback collection of Woolrich's
stories titled Beyond the Night that was explicitly marketed
as horror: "SIX TALES OF HORROR TO FLUTTER THE HEART-AND
CHILL THE MIND." A link to the cover:
http://www.violetbooks.com/images-detective/woolr-beyond.jpg
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Vorzimmer wrote:>
> I've read the novel, but not the story and I would
classify it ashorror or supernatural, but definitely not
crime fiction.> __._,_._
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