Marvelous exercise in Grand Guignol, great sets, spooky atmosphere, fine screenplay by scenarist Charles Beaumont based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and a splendid two - tiered performance by Vincent Price. (rottentomatoes.com)
Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left - wing politics, courtesy (no doubt) of scenarist John Howard Lawson, who based his screenplay on a novel by maritime specialist Guy Gilpatric. (rottentomatoes.com)
«Mr. Shyamalan has come up with a doozy of a premise for «The Happening,» one that will appeal to the doomsday scenarist in every pessimist, so it's a shame he doesn't know what to do with it other than mow people down. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)