Hitchcock passes over the heart of his life, the demonic core of his being, in silence, and that silence — that inability to speak about sex — is why he was a filmmaker, and a great one, rather than, say, a novelist or a memoirist.
Maybe it's a demonic spirit.
The LED lighting in the ceiling changes colour frequently, making us look alternatively demonic, on the point of heart failure and green around the gills.
Besotted by the general's flowing locks and limpid eyes, the princess exchanges her heart for the fox's demonic beauty, a transaction accomplished with the aid of sinuous animation and much underwater hanky-panky.
How do the kinds of people seen in "Entourage" manage to make movies that, by and large, make money — i.e., how do they make movies that large numbers of "civilians" pay to see? It's a mystery, but it's a mystery that gets to the very essence of life at large and the demonic forces that lurk within most people's hearts.
However, it was Froch's demonic belief and drive that won the hearts of the millions watching and will leave every single witness a convert to the Johnny Cash-loving gentleman from Nottingham.
But the demonic nature of the Jews lies at the heart of the drama.
"Fairies", if you like, but this is a race of uncouth and demonic beings who strike primal terror into the hearts of rural folk.
But in presuming to take you inside the mind and heart of a major artist, confronting the demonic aspect of the human condition, "Love Is the Devil," which opens today at the Film Forum, goes as far and as deep as any movie has dared.
Much like its predecessor, then, "The Conjuring 2" is a faith-based freakout at heart: It ruthlessly exploits the spectacle of demonic possession, treats disbelief as a dangerous enemy, and finds a vital antidote in the warm embrace of a loving, God-fearing family.
