Film Noir: Five photos given the Horror-movie treatment
It hasn’t been a good year for photo field trips for myriad reasons, but I was able to explore (as much as my broken limb would allow) an empty campground this weekend — a prime spot to capture a few images of desolation and edit in a horror-movie cue or two.
Here are five favorites, captioned with film dialogue for good measure.
Marty: It was the pioneer days. People had to make their own interrogation rooms. ~ The Cabin in the Woods, 2011“There’s a legend around here. A killer buried, but not dead. A curse on Crystal Lake; a death curse.” ~ Friday the 13th, part VII, 1988Noah: I can’t imagine being stuck down a well all alone like that. How long could you survive? Rachel: Seven days. ~ The Ring, 2002Amelia: Well, I’m not scared. Samuel: You will be when it creeps into your room at night. ~ The Babadook, 2014Louis: That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can’t recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became. ~ Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, 1994
Photos taken at Camp Bonnie Brae, the nation’s longest continuously operating Girl Scout Camp, in East Otis, Mass.
