Apparitions from heaven???

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Since the film is from the early 70ies and based on a book that - naturally - was written even earlier, not really. The real breakthrough in psychology or psychiatry happened at a later point in time. Much later, actually. There are mental conditions the people in the 60ies and 70ies didn't know the first thing about.

Yeah it happened in the 1940's.

What's your favorite scary movie or book?

I know you're not asking me but I'll butt in a recommendation anyway H.P. Lovecraft. If you look it up on amazon you can get the complete collection of 62 stories in one, cheap volume (on kindle). They're all short stories, so they make for good toilet reading , and some of them are very creepy. One of those stories is The Call of Cthulhu... so by reading that you get to learn the back story of our resident Mafia overlord but there are also plenty of other stories on a wide range of themes, but all of the horror genre.