DISCOVERY: ROBERT PARIGI

A simulacrum of Psycho gene-spliced with Vertigo by way of De Palma, Robert Parigi's mordantly witty horror film, Love Object, sidesteps the copycat trap by brilliantly matching secondhand (classic) pulp tropes to zeitgeist content and meaning.

You can read the complete version of this article in the July/August 2003 print edition of Film Comment.