Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No other individuals were charged with the murders, and Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, nine days before the death of her older sister, Emma.

The Kubrick stare is a technique used to portray insane or unstable characters in film. In a Kubrick stare, an actor looks out from under the brow line and tilts their head towards the camera. Deemed "one of cinema's most recognizable shots" by film critic Robbie Collin, the technique is named after Stanley Kubrick, who often used it, but it has also been used by other directors before and since. The term was coined by cinematographer Douglas Milsome to describe one of Alex's facial expressions in the Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971). Continue reading →