Yellow House Artist Collective exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, there was also a puppet theatre, light shows, performance of plays and regular screening of films. These included a range of classic, avant garde and modern works such Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou", Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", Phil Noyce's "Better to Reign in Hell", Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" and Peter Weir's "Count Vim's Last Exercise", as well as works by Albie Thoms, Bruce Petty, Mick Glasheen and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. In 1990 the Art Gallery of New South Wales staged an exhibition which comprised, in part, reconstruction of some of the
The Spiral Staircase (1946 film) romance," the film has been noted by contemporary critics for its prominent Gothic horror elements. It has also been cited as one of numerous progenitors to the slasher film, specifically due to its female-centric cast and point-of-view cinematography deployed during scenes in which the killer stalks his victims. Film scholar Amy Golden notes several significant visual allusions in the film, such as Luis Buñuel's "Un chien andalou" (1929) and Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943). Golden cites the film as a "quintessential example of 1940s horror." Writer Denis Grunes in 2007 suggested the film is "in fact a masked