Sunset Boulevard at the Egyptian

By Steve Biodrowski • December 3, 2008

SUNSET BOULEVARD plays at 8pm on Thursday as part of the American Cinematheque’s 10th anniversary celebration of reopening the Egyptian Theatre. No one but me seems to realize that this is indeed a horror film. Literally, the story is about a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who becomes the boy-toy of a former silent movie star, but metaphorically, all of the horror elements are there: the young man who pulls into a secluded mansion; the sinister manservant; the funereal atmosphere; and most of all the aging woman who sucks the vitality out of him like a vampire. Read an in-depth review of the film here.

Categories: Must See
Tags: Egyptian Theatre

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Steve Biodrowski

Steve Biodrowski owns and operates Hollywood Gothique. Since graduating from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema, Steve has worked as a film critic, script analyst, journalist, and interviewer. As a film journalist, his work has appeared in Movieline, Premiere, Le Cinephage (in France) and The Dark Side (in England). He served as the West Coast Editor of Cinefantastique magazine in the 1990s, then worked as the Vice President of Editorial Content at Fandom.com and, more recently, as the Executive Editor at Cinescape Online. He is currently the Managing Editor of Cinefantastique Online, the website incarnation of Cinefantastique magazine.

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