From Examiner Essentials installment number twenty-six:
"Like so many of the greatest films ever made, The Night of the Hunter pretty much bombed upon release. Critics did not like it, audiences stayed home in droves, and the awful reception prompted Laughton to make a vow to never direct a movie again. And this is one of the biggest travesties in cinema history - if this crazy movie was Laughton's first as a director, imagine what kind of intense films he could have made with some practice. It's not like German expressionism was huge in the 1950's. Hell, pretty much nothing German was in vogue in 1955. but Laughton took a thirty year old cinematic style and applied it to the films of his day, and the result is a weird and fairly unsettling movie.Watch it Instantly right here on Netflix!
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