๐ง ๐ฎ Wednesday Night Weirdness: Inner Sanctum (1948)
Where the only thing more mysterious than the murder… is why you’re still watching. ๐๐ช Let’s set the mood: it’s Wednesday night, your week's already a slow-motion car crash, and you’re looking for something vintage, creepy, and delightfully confusing to round out your evening. ๐ซ Enter: Inner Sanctum — no, not the old radio show (though that was better), but the 1948 film version where murder, whispers, and melodrama all swirl together like someone dropped a film noir into a blender and forgot to put the lid on. ๐จ๐️ Our plot begins with a guy who, shocker, commits murder and decides the best place to hide out is a creepy boarding house full of suspicious characters and even more suspicious lighting. And you know it’s serious when a creepy kid starts narrating like he’s auditioning for a ghost tour. ๐ฆ๐ฃ️ But here’s the kicker: The entire story is framed by a train station confessional monologue from a complete stranger who just knows everything about everyone. Either he...