The Eye of the Beholder

Murder for Two: Oedipal Death-Cycles in ‘The Eye of the Beholder’

Murder for Two: Oedipal Death-Cycles in ‘The Eye of the Beholder’

Behm turns the detective novel first on its head and then sideways before shot-putting it across a terrain of Żuławskian terror; its film adaptation is an equally nerve-wracking descent into oedipal destruction.