Seriously though, I don’t care if they remake Night Of The Hunter but here’s a brief thread why it was a beautifully macabre one off. First, it contained awful but haunting images such as this:

It featured an elderly shotgun-toting devout Christian up against a serial killing charlatan ‘Preacher’ with brilliant use of chiaroscuro by DOP Stanley Cortez.

Steely Lillian Gish was more than a match for a demented Robert Mitchum. The massive shotty helped: