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Scott Andrew Hutchins <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:17:08 -0500
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You might want to take a look at Maitland McDonagh's _Broken Mirrors, Broken Minds_, which compares Argento's _Deep Red_ to Antonioni's _Blowup_, both of which star David Hemmings, although he plays a photographer only in the latter.

Argento's segment of _Two Evil Eyes_ features Harvey Keitel as a photgrapher based on Weegee as the killer in a modern retelling of Poe's "The Black Cat," with numerous references to other Poe stories for good measure.

Although more of a social horror/science fiction film, Bertrand Tavernier's _Death Watch_ (1980) features Harvey Keitel as a man with cameras in his eyes watching a woman in her 40s dying of a sickness for a reality TV show that she does not know that she is on.

Peeping Tom
Beetlejuice has a camera scene--the Maitalnds don't show up on camera.
_Blacula_ shows that Mamuwalde (the title character's actual name) does not show up in photographs.

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---- Dorothee Birke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> Dear list members,
> 
> This is a question for horror film buffs: we are
> currently trying to compile a corpus of horror films in which
> photography is used in order to show things that are invisible to the
> naked eye. Examples would be The Omen, in which smudges on photographs
> foreshadow the deaths of the people in the picture, or Shutter, in
> which photos reveal the presence of a ghost.
> 
> Can anybody think of horror films featuring photographs or photographers? We would greatly appreciate your help!
> 
> With many thanks in advance and best wishes
> 
> Dorothee and Michael
> 
> PS: Other films that already came to mind were Ring, The Shining and The Asphyx.
> 
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