The Mummy's Tomb (1942)

The Mummy's Tomb (1942) is a Universal monster series early to mid forties Lon Chaney recyclathon gauzed menace archive footage filled fun filled shadow sequel mummy movie from Harold Young with Elyse Knox and Tuhran Bey and reprise roles with George Zucco, and Dick Foran, as well as Wallace Ford combined in a conceptual orientalist expression of North American longing for immortality combined with colonial guilt re-wiped and the use of the word 'occidentals' among other blundering culture and race jamming.

The Amazing Mr. X (1948)

The Amazing Mr. X (1948) is a 1948 American horror thriller film noir directed by Bernard Vorhaus with cinematography by John Alton. It is also known as The Spiritualist, which is just as well, because nobody in it is called Mr X, or referred top as Mr X, although it's true that it does make a fairly sensational title.

The film tells the story of a phony spiritualist racket, which is rather excellently described with the various tricks of the trade merrily on display, much as they are in fairground noir Nightmare Alley (1947), which also reveals some of the tricks of the trickster's trade in all their shabby glory. 

The film is prominently featured in Alton's book on cinematography Painting with Light (1949) and , the photography does certainly have a full-on film noir feel, with its massive plays of dark and light around doorways and stairways and other architectural corners — including an interesting and repeated shot of the spiritualists at work via the crystal ball — shot from below. Some of the most memorably and recognisable film noir photography on the block.

Another of the stranger angles places the viewer inside a sink.