In this excerpt from “Le fantastique,” a 1982 episode of the French television show “Ciné-parade,” director Georges Franju discusses fantastic cinema, his theories about horror, and finding terror in the everyday.
Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac’s novels provided the basis for such cinema classics as Henri-Georges Clouzot’s DIABOLIQUE and Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO, and the authors cowrote the screenplay for EYES WITHOUT A FACE. In these excerpts from the 1985 documentary LES GRANDS-PÈRES DU CRIME, the ...