Considered by many as the origin point for modern slashers and found footage film, this 1960 horror-thriller is more than just what its voyeuristic tone beget. The Michael Powell-directed and Leo Marks-written picture follows soft-spoken Mark (Carl Boehm) as he fulfills his patriarchal-inspired filmmaking aspirations by rolling camera on the young women he kills. This cinematic obsession with control over image correlates well with Alienated Majesty’s pick for this month’s Papercuts literary pairing: Author Katherine Packert Burke’s novel All Us Saints, about a sister reenacting her family’s murder by her twin brother on a stage set in the very rooms where the terror happened. – James Scott
