New England has a chill-out aura. Land of the Salem Witches and the legendary Headless Horseman of
Sleepy Hollow
, immortalized by Tim Burton. This superstition, these sad lagging skies feed the curious Netflix film,
In the Blind Spots
. Based on the novel by Elizabeth Brundage which was inspired by the theories of convergence between the spiritual and material worlds of the Swedish Enlightenment philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, this film, by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, pays homage to Gothic classics and behind closed doors esoteric like
The Tower of Nut.
It starts off as a haunted house movie. Then branches off halfway into an oppressive marriage thriller. All in a twilight twilight which owes as much to
Barry Lindon
of Kubrick as the landscape paintings of painter George Inness and those Hudson School colleagues who play a pivotal role in the plot.
Age of suspicion
Appreciated art restorer, Catherine Claire (Amanda Seyfried seen in
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