Schalcken the Painter
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Schalcken the Painter

Schalcken the Painter

Schalcken the Painter

1979
Drama, Fantasy
TV Movie
1h 8m
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late? (imdb)

Directed by:

Leslie Megahey
Leslie-Megahey
13 total credits
Leslie Megahey has 13 credits at Criticker, including: The Advocate, Schalcken the Painter and With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

Writer:

Leslie Megahey
Leslie-Megahey
13 total credits
Leslie Megahey has 13 credits at Criticker, including: The Advocate, Schalcken the Painter and With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

Starring:

Maurice Denham
Maurice-Denham
54 total credits
Maurice Denham has 54 credits at Criticker, including: Animal Farm, Night of the Demon, Oliver Twist, Sunday Bloody Sunday and 84 Charing Cross Road
,
Charles Gray
Charles-Gray
45 total credits
Charles Gray has 45 credits at Criticker, including: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, The Devil Rides Out and Shock Treatment
,
John Justin
John-Justin
15 total credits
John Justin has 15 credits at Criticker, including: The Thief of Bagdad, Lisztomania, The Sound Barrier, Savage Messiah and Schalcken the Painter
,
Jeremy Clyde
Jeremy-Clyde
9 total credits
Jeremy Clyde has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter, The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt, Kaspar Hauser, The Falklands Play and Proof of Guilt
,
Anthony Sharp
Anthony-Sharp
7 total credits
Anthony Sharp has 7 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter, The Confessional: House of Mortal Sin, Black Snake, I Want What I Want and Gawain and the Green Knight
,
Cheryl Kennedy
Cheryl-Kennedy
1 total credit
Cheryl Kennedy has just 1 credit at Criticker: Schalcken the Painter
,
Roy Evans
Roy-Evans
4 total credits
Roy Evans has 4 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter, Dark Places, Loving Memory and The Black Seal
,
Eric Francis
Eric-Francis
2 total credits
Eric Francis has 2 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter and The Boys in Blue
,
Ann Tirard
Ann-Tirard
2 total credits
Ann Tirard has 2 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter and Recluse
,
Val Penny
Val-Penny
1 total credit
Val Penny has just 1 credit at Criticker: Schalcken the Painter

Genres:

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Schalcken the Painter

1979
Drama, Fantasy
TV Movie
1h 8m
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Avg Percentile 61.41% from 35 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

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Avg Percentile 61.41% from 35 total ratings
Rated 29 Mar 2022
74
85th
Intriguing, uncanny and multilayered reflection on the perpetual temptation to reduce the incalculability of desire, whether aesthetic or sexual, to the calculations of commercial exchange, and the hauntings produced by such reductions. Perhaps there is still something not quite worked out in the script, but the recreations of Vermeer et al. are very effective, and the narration is amusingly deadpan in the best British style. A little reminiscent of THE IMMORTAL STORY.
Rated 21 Dec 2021
65
66th
This is a modest film - relatively short running time, small cast, a few simple sets - but one which is surprisingly rich and rewarding in its simplicity. Drawing on Le Fanu's short story, as well as some of Schalken's actual paintings and some Schalken-like pantings, Megahey very effectively uses natural light along with doorways and darkly humorous yet informative narration to frame romantic and ghostly scenes. The approaches of Peter Watkins, Walerian Borowczyk and John Berger are evident.
Rated 30 Jun 2015
90
89th
I have to admit - I saw this 6 months ago and it still has not left my head. The film's lyricism and unease are one and the same, letting its slow-boil plot to rise to a dead-heat before you know it. Its primary framing device, using art appreciation as both a pretense and a way to build the horror, is as cold and calculating and disturbing as Schalcken himself, the poor rich bastard.
Rated 24 Dec 2011
75
45th
Omnibus book-end to the Christmas Ghost Stories (just as Whistle and I'll Come to You was the first book-end). It's quite beautiful - there's some downright majestic lighting, and it all has the look of a classical painting. It's a bit too slow a burn, but it's easy enough to get lost in the images.

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Leslie Megahey
Leslie-Megahey
13 total credits
Leslie Megahey has 13 credits at Criticker, including: The Advocate, Schalcken the Painter and With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

Writer:

Leslie Megahey
Leslie-Megahey
13 total credits
Leslie Megahey has 13 credits at Criticker, including: The Advocate, Schalcken the Painter and With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

Starring:

Maurice Denham
Maurice-Denham
54 total credits
Maurice Denham has 54 credits at Criticker, including: Animal Farm, Night of the Demon, Oliver Twist, Sunday Bloody Sunday and 84 Charing Cross Road
,
Charles Gray
Charles-Gray
45 total credits
Charles Gray has 45 credits at Criticker, including: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, The Devil Rides Out and Shock Treatment
,
John Justin
John-Justin
15 total credits
John Justin has 15 credits at Criticker, including: The Thief of Bagdad, Lisztomania, The Sound Barrier, Savage Messiah and Schalcken the Painter
,
Jeremy Clyde
Jeremy-Clyde
9 total credits
Jeremy Clyde has 9 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter, The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt, Kaspar Hauser, The Falklands Play and Proof of Guilt
,
Anthony Sharp
Anthony-Sharp
7 total credits
Anthony Sharp has 7 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter, The Confessional: House of Mortal Sin, Black Snake, I Want What I Want and Gawain and the Green Knight
,
Cheryl Kennedy
Cheryl-Kennedy
1 total credit
Cheryl Kennedy has just 1 credit at Criticker: Schalcken the Painter
,
Roy Evans
Roy-Evans
4 total credits
Roy Evans has 4 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter, Dark Places, Loving Memory and The Black Seal
,
Eric Francis
Eric-Francis
2 total credits
Eric Francis has 2 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter and The Boys in Blue
,
Ann Tirard
Ann-Tirard
2 total credits
Ann Tirard has 2 credits at Criticker, including: Schalcken the Painter and Recluse
,
Val Penny
Val-Penny
1 total credit
Val Penny has just 1 credit at Criticker: Schalcken the Painter

Genres:

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Country:

UK

Language:

English
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