![]() ![]() Georgina Naidu) 2022, set and costume designer for Ernest and the Pale Moon. Despite its tea-time slot, it exudes an off-putting nastiness, as if something unpleasant is lurking behind the net curtains. Caitlins VCA credits include set designer for First Love is the Revolution (dir. What's more, it appears to pay no thought to the fact that 1950s sexual politics and attitudes towards women now look pretty dated. A noir horror tale inspired by the works of Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock, 'Ernest and the Pale Moon' tells the gothic story of a jealous young man obsessed with his beautiful neighbor. Within the fairest, clad in purity, Our mother dwelleth immemorially : Moon - calm, moon - pale, with moon stones on her. But it doesn't quite succeed in turning its bright, stolen things into something fresh and illuminating a failure to reinvent its borrowings makes it feel derivative and a little tired. as he listened to the waves when they broke upon the shingles, and saw the light of the pale moon streaming over the vale, the sense of the Infinite. Making no disguise of the fact that it draws heavily on Hitchock's Rear Window and Psycho and the tales of Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest delights in its own magpie thieving. Clever, slick and with a sharp design that plays cleverly with perspective, this tale of obsession, madness and ghostly retribution drips atmosphere and blood. ![]() And so it proves in this slice of mock gothic brought to us by the team behind the witty and charming 2007 fringe hit The Terrible Infants. He calls it love and devotion we might see it as something more sinister. Ernest sits in his darkened room each night, watching the pale young woman in the apartment across the road. ![]()
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