 In 1966 Stephen Farber used " Gothic " to describe Lilith and a few other American films of the early 1960s based on psychological horror , and regarded Lilith 's female protagonist as a demonic temptress . Nina <unk> regarded Lilith as the most extreme of the American film industry 's applications , or rather misapplications , of psychoanalytic concepts , as the patient is already psychotic and has a track record of previous conquests . In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson describes Lilith as " an oddity , the only one of [ Rossen 's ] films that seems passionate , mysterious and truly personal . The other films will look increasingly dated and self @-@ contained , but Lilith may grow . " 
