Wait Until Dark

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Wait Until Dark

In my opinion, a movie really passes as being scary if a scene makes you jump. "Wait Until Dark" has one such scene (but I won't tell you what it is; I'm gonna let you get scared). The plot involves blind Suzy Hendrix (Audrey Hepburn) unwittingly involved in a drug-smuggling plot. The really creepy aspect comes when oily thug Harry Roat (Alan Arkin) gets into her confidence. This is one of those movies that will probably make you suspicious of the people around you. And don't stop the movie at any point - you have to watch it beginning to end to get the full experience. Another classic movie from one of the world's classic actresses and an ever dependable actor.

Never in my life have I ever seen 800 people fly off their seas like I did the night I saw WAIT UNTIL DARK at the cinema in 1970. And I was up there with them. Moaning away in shock. Screaming! (and I don't scream) ............In the run up to the final 20 mins the cinema management slammed the foyer doors, switched off all the aisle lights one by one all around the cinema, and turned up the volume; ripples of creepiness washed over the audience....and then....whammo! The noise from the audience, the screaming and the shifting about in our seats.....I haven't heard shocked noises like that in a cinema since. Do yourself a BIG favour...........get the DVD and watch this at home, by yourself, in total darkness! You will scream your head off and tell everyone you know what a great thriller this is.

Excellent,very underrated suspense where Audrey Hepburn shows how much eclectic she was from psychological dramas (children's hour) to musicals (My fair lady)to thrillers "in camera " like this absorbing exciting "wait until dark" .Directed by Terence YOung (who directed the best James Bond bar one -Goldfinger-),it never gives the feeling of watching a filmed stage production and however it was a play in the first place.Hepburn is wonderful as the courageous blind woman who 's got to fight against killers (and she gets fine support from Richard Crenna and Alan Arkin) in her apartment.Influenced by "rear window" ,it's perhaps not as good as Hitch's classic,but it rises to the occasion.The scene when Hepburn shoots out (and smashes) all the lights is mind-boggling.So is the fridge's terrifying sequence which climaxes the movie. Every cine buff fond of suspense deserves -and must see- "Wait until dark" Sit down and get some scares...in the dark of course.