What is the movie The Lodger about?
What is the movie The Lodger about?
When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello), they’re overjoyed: He’s quiet, humble and pays a month’s rent in advance. But his mysterious and suspicious behavior soon has them wondering if he’s the killer terrorizing local blond girls. Their daughter, Daisy (June), a cocky model, is far less concerned, her attraction obvious. Her police-detective boyfriend (Malcolm Keen), in a pique of jealousy, seeks to uncover the lodger’s true identity.The Lodger / Film synopsis
What is The Lodger based on?
The Lodger is based on a novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes about the Jack the Ripper murders, as well as the play Who Is He?, a comic stage adaptation of the novel by Horace Annesley Vachell that Hitchcock saw in 1915.
Did Hitchcock remake The Lodger?
The Lodger was remade at Twentieth Century-Fox in 1944, but not by Hitchcock.
Who was the killer in The Lodger?
Ellen
She also made up the imaginary life that her son lived, and the lodger, who was a romantic interest for her. Though the police and the press accept that this is the truth and Ellen is the killer, Manning does not believe it and the last scene is Malcolm, at a new residence in Santa Monica, looking for new lodgings.
What is the lodgers family curse?
Spoilers: The curse has come about after their ancestors, a set of boy-girl twins, committed incest. Since then there is a line of brother-sister twins doing the same. Rachel sees a flashback at the lake of her father drowning her mother then himself.
What are the twins in the lodgers?
Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate.
Where was the lodgers filmed?
Loftus Hall
The Lodgers is a 2017 Irish gothic horror film written by David Turpin and directed by Brian O’Malley. The film stars Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, and Eugene Simon. It was shot on location at Loftus Hall in 2016 and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2017.