My Corflu schedule

I'm going to Corflu this weekend. Here's my schedule:

Panel on fanzine reviews. Don't know when this is or who else is on it. Do you?

That's my schedule. Are you an important person? Would you like my autograph? Would you like a copy of my incomprehensible van Vogt mix-up? Are you on on the panel too? Can I be your sock-puppet?

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Image of the Night

The director of photography for The Spiral Staircase (1946) was Nicholas Musuraca, who was one of the great noir stylists and also shot a number of the Val Lewton horror thrillers at RKO. The Spiral Staircase feels like a Lewton movie in many ways, or maybe it's just the RKO team feeling, with music by Roy Webb and art direction by Albert D'Agostino as well. Women-in-peril gothics are a variation on the old dark house genre, so you've got to go down into the dark basement with nothing but a quavering candle. The lion's head in the background ties in with the predilections of one of the major characters, but it's also a great bit of weird symbolism. Above all, I love this shot for the way the lighting turns Rhonda Fleming's face into a mask.