I watched the 1996 remake of Diabolique yesterday.
- huh.
- Very funny to recognize the “Catholic boarding school for boys, isolated in the woods of Appalachia” as the former-Catholic-school-turned-Jewish-day-school smack in the middle of Squirrel Hill, like four blocks from the interstate
- The pair of videographers have a specific jagoff-videographers vibe
- Donal Logue!
- The guy who looks like JJ Abrams
- Is JJ Abrams
- Looked up an article about its filming (I remembered it happening because it was a Very Big Deal that they filmed part of it in Fayette County) and found the Pittsburgh Film Office delivering the exact same pitch for filmmaking in the region as they would be doing five years later when I was an undergrad and in the 25 years since
- While this is definitely a part of the Attracting Businesses Local Boosterism Rotary Club playbook that has defined the region since steel started falling apart, what was jarring is that it’s still the same person.