The Witches (1990)

25 October 2019

Touch of Evil (1958) is a film noir starring Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, and Janet Leigh. Heston plays a Mexican cop newly wed to Leigh, when a car bomb on the US-Mexico border throws him into the investigation opposite Welles as the American cop.

Unsettling for most of the film, it's grim, gritty and dark. The film's discussions about racism are complicated (example: http://www.thecinessential.com/touch-of-e…/discussing-racism); drugs and crime are front-facing in the film; discussions about the law and justice are treated hazily.

It's a hard watch because the camera is always uncomfortably angled, and the characters are uncomfortably unpleasant. I last watched Touch of Evil on New Year's Day in 2009, and gave it an 8/10 then. I'm willing to place it a little higher today, since it was such an unsettling film. 9/10