The Night the Devil Came

Japanese: 《悪魔が来た夜》 - あくまがきたよる
The Night the Devil Came

...His semi-documentary technique, which combined the foundations of German melodrama and expressionist film styles he learned during his time at UFA with the trend toward realism in Hollywood production, is now being reevaluated as "location realism." In 1954, as the "thriller" trend was declining in Hollywood, he returned to West Germany via France, and attracted attention with his film "The Night the Devil Came" (1957), which was about a series of murders of women and exposed the Nazi logic that mentally ill people should be eliminated. After that, he only made a few films, such as the West German-Italian-American coproduction "28 Roads to Hell" (1962) and the American film "General Custer" (1968). [Kashiwakura Masami]...

*Some of the terminology referenced in "The Night the Devil Came" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ウーファ社時代に学んだドイツ映画のメロドラマと表現主義映画のスタイルの基礎を,ハリウッドの製作機構の中で当時のリアリズム志向の風潮に溶け込ませたそのセミ・ドキュメンタリー的手法は,〈ロケーション・リアリズム〉などと呼ばれて再評価の対象になっている。54年,ハリウッドにおける〈スリラー〉の退潮とともにフランスを経て西ドイツへ帰り,連続婦女殺人事件を主題に,精神異常者は抹殺されるべきであるとしたナチスの論理をあばいた作品《悪魔が来た夜》(1957)で注目されたが,その後は西ドイツとイタリアとアメリカの合作映画《地獄道28》(1962)やアメリカ映画《カスター将軍》(1968)といった数本をつくったのみであった。【柏倉 昌美】。…

※「《悪魔が来た夜》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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