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Originally Posted by MacBlayne  Haven't seen this in years but I remember being thoroughly impressed with it. It starts off like a silly horror mystery, but gradually gets more and more unnerving. It's obvious from watching it that Polanski took the material rather seriously, and chose to put the viewer through a similar journey as Depp. I wonder if this is why many American critics took a dislike to it - that it became a straight-up horror rather than a faux satire of the genre.
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Thanks Mac.
Actually it starts off as a Noirish mystery. There's not even a whiff of horror for about forty minutes until Depp figures out what LCF means as a signature on the books art plates. You are right that it gets more and more unnerving as it goes along.