# Gaslight (1944)

> A celebrated Victorian psychological thriller turns a fashionable London home into a sinister laboratory of marital manipulation.

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## Facts

- Runtime: 114 min
- Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Crime
- Director: George Cukor
- Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon
- TMDB rating: 7.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Mood: brooding, eerie, claustrophobic, classic cinema night, gothic thriller night

## Synopsis

A woman grapples with her sanity as dark secrets unfold in her new life.

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