If Flannery O’Connor wrote screenplays, she would have written something like the 1955 Southern Gothic tale Night of the Hunter. Modern viewers of this film can go on a scary sojourn of discovery.

Per books like The Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties or special features on the film’s Criterion Collection ...

Universal is behind the adaptation, which comes decades after a 1955 classic film starring Robert Mitchum. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Universal has tapped Derrickson to direct an adaptation of ...

Reputationwise, The Night of the Hunter has belatedly gotten its due these past 70 years. Martin Scorsese and Roger Ebert are among those who lifted this cinematic dread-feast from commercial failure ...

Scott Derrickson has been set to direct an adaptation of Davis Grubb’s classic 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter for Universal Pictures, working from his script written with C. Robert Cargill, his ...

Preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) is the very picture of charm. He’s tall and handsome, with an easy smile and a soft voice. When he sings hymns it’s with a heavenly baritone, and when he ...