Their neo-noir debut, Blood Easy, featured bonafide frights, successfully using memorably scary scenes. Who can neglect the sequence when Ray, the earnest backdoor man simply attempting to assist the lady he loves, finally ends up burying her horrible husband, Julian, alive? Nor can the previous scene, through which Julian breaks into Ray’s home and makes an attempt to assault Abby (performed so effectively by the Coen brothers’ common, Frances McDormand), be rapidly shaken from reminiscence.
Later, when Julian seems someway alive, shockingly sitting within the residence of his untrue spouse, we’re terrified. Fortunately, it’s a reduction when it’s revealed a couple of moments later to be a dream sequence. This visceral terror, utilized of their potential horror movie, might be laborious to observe–and laborious to disregard.
