The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Directed by Victor Sjöström
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
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What critics compared The Phantom Carriage to
Kubrick’s mad precision certainly came to mind which watching The Lighthouse , but I also thought of Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, and Lynch, as well as Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession and Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage .
I think it likely that Allen has also been influenced by Victor Sjöström's silent Swedish masterpiece, The Phantom Carriage, his idol Ingmar Bergman's favourite movie, which centres on a ghostly coach going around town at midnight picking up the dead.