![]() ![]() But his undervalued film adaptation of De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater certainly deserves a place next to all of these films. Between 19, he produced several films, among them Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man, Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind and The Tarnished Angels, and Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil. ![]() Though not exactly prolific, De Quincey’s canon is important for two works in particular: 1845’s Suspiria de Profundis, which loosely inspired Dario Argento’s masterpiece Suspiria and its sequel Inferno, and Confessions of an English Opium Eater, a frenzied collection of stories, metaphors and philosophical anecdotes that evoke a man alienated both from society and himself.Īlbert Zugsmith, ostracized in Hollywood for his subversive tendencies, is better known today as a producer rather than a director. His inward-turning imagination and nightmarish philosophical ruminations influenced a legion of tormented souls, most notably Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire. ![]() ![]() He became addicted to opium in his teens and never stopped using the drug until his death in 1859. Essayist and critic Thomas De Quincey was born in Manchester on August 15, 1785. ![]()
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