The Recommended Vault Deeply Connected to Unto the End: Cult Guide

Dir: Harrish Ingraham

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Eye of Envy perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Marie, a little orphan girl living with a tavern keeper called M'sieu, brings happiness into the lives of M'sieu's patrons with her sayings and songs which have the effect on people of replacing their evil thoughts with good ones. She becomes the constant companion of Absinthe, an old musician who now plays at the tavern, but who earlier had accompanied a great singer until he was dismissed because of drinking. One day Marie finds Claire, the daughter of the now deceased singer, at the river bank, contemplating death. Marie brings Claire to the inn, where she helps out and eventually falls in love with Philip, a frequenter of the tavern, due to Marie's effort to rehabilitate Philip with her singing.

Dir: Harrish Ingraham

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Unto the End perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In 1865, Morgan Gray, a Confederate renegade, kills the mother, father and sweetheart of Amity Graham and later marries her. Before dying in childbirth, Amity puts a curse on Gray and all his descendants. Fifty-two years later, the family curse is visited on Morgan Gray's hard-drinking, but likable grandson Abel, who, on the day of his marriage to Northern girl Hope Halliday, mistakenly concludes that he has killed a man, thanks to the machinations of his malevolent brother Kane. Fleeing to a distant area, Abel fights his tendency toward alcoholism and tries to recover his self-esteem. Eventually he rescues his wife from a gang of villains and learns that he had not committed murder, thus overcoming the family curse.

Dir: Harrish Ingraham

In Sleepy Hollow dwells a young blacksmith who, when not happily making horseshoes, is courting a village maiden.