...in a brilliant display of cinematic acumen, Bergman teases his audience with his own slight of hand, by concluding his film with a masterful series of shocks and scares, not unlike his legendary dream sequence in Wild Strawberries (which incidentally inspired a nightmare in William Freidkin’s The Exorcist).
Set alone, the rapid-fire series of events wherein the non-believing doctor is trapped in an attic with re-animated body parts and the walking dead would make for a great horror film short, comparable to John Carpenter (Halloween) or even William Castle (House on Haunted Hill).
Read more at Suite101: Ingmar Bergman's The Magician — Criterion Blu-Ray Review http://www.suite101.com/content/ingmar-bergmans-the-magician--criterion-blu-ray-review-a296828#ixzz12X0QqXDR
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