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“Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.”

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Vincent Canby was a renowned film critic known for his profound insights and unique reviews. He served as a film critic for The New York Times for 30 years, writing thousands of film reviews that had a profound impact on the development of cinema. more

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