Stranger Behind the Mask/Quotes

""Knox's First Commandment: The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.""

- Ronald Knox, attempting to prevent this bad writing trope from being used.

""And then there's the mystery itself, which is almost laughably weak. Figuring out who the killer is in a Halloween sequel is more exciting than the reveal of the murderer, who is a nothing character of no significance and delivers a motive that makes no sense at all (something Poe actually says to his face; a rare moment in the film where I was on board with the script).""

- Horror Movie a Day review of The Raven.