Dragonwyck (1946)

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Dragonwyck is a gothic romance featuring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price. Price is very closely associated with the horror genre, and it’s his performance that gives the film its hints of horror.

Price is Nicholas Van Ryn, a wealthy Dutch landowner in 19th century upstate New York. He rules over his property and its tenants, like a tyrant, desperately clinging to traditions and customs that are being passed by fashion and the law. He lives in a palatial estate called Dragonwyck, where he invites Miranda (Tierney) to come care for his daughter. After the death of Van Ryn’s first wife, he and Miranda are married and his madness begins to unfold. He’s desperate for a son, and when their newborn dies shortly after birth, he finds he has no more use for Miranda and plots to kill her, the same as he did his first wife.

Watching Price come unhinged is a true pleasure. He describes the death of his great-grandmother, whose ghost haunts Dragonwyck, with a detached gaze that’s empty and chilling, and his disgust with nearly every character in the film but himself makes him an unmistakable villain.

The haunting of Dragonwyck is rendered well, with bizarre music accompanying a ghostly wail. We never see the ghost, but hearing it evokes the ghosts in us all. The specter of the Van Ryn matriarch, though, is merely a distraction. What’s truly haunted in the film is Nicholas Van Ryn himself. His failings are human, not supernatural, and his final scene, in which he hallucinates his tenants paying him tribute, is the film’s best.

Dragonwyck, the directorial debut of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve), straddles the thin divide between gothic and horror. Its horrors rest squarely on the shoulders of Price, but that’s certainly good company to keep.

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