Anthony Shaffer

‘Evil Under the Sun’ (1982) is a sunny Poirot delight

Shot on the beautiful island of Majorca (now famous as the home of Rafael Nadal), featuring a stellar cast and faithfully adapting Agatha Christie’s clever

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Return to Britain serves up ‘Frenzy’ (1972) of great plotting

“Frenzy” (1972) is Alfred Hitchcock’s best British film – even though it’s his only British film after he switched to Hollywood, and it’s from his

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‘Death on the Nile’ (1978) faithfully and lavishly adapts Christie’s gem

The 1978 version of “Death on the Nile” has stayed afloat as one of the elite film adaptations of an Agatha Christie novel. Anthony Shaffer’s

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‘Wicker Man’ (1973) a thrilling piece of daylight horror history

Like “Midsommar” would do nearly a half-century later, “The Wicker Man” (1973) taps into a subgenre called folk horror. These films are not traditionally scary

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