Editing Don't Look Now (section)

=== Influence ===
{{Quote box | quote = I just thought that it was a beautifully shot, really adult look at real-life horror stories, and there was a great degree of sexuality in it that, as a young kid, when I saw it, I remember I was very startled by. It felt very brave to me, and I think it still holds up. Nick Roeg is a brilliant director. | source = Ryan Murphy on ''Don't Look Now''.<ref name="Radish (2011)"/> | align = right | salign = right | width = 20em; | bgcolor = #F0EAD6;}}
''Don't Look Now'' has been much admired by and an influence on subsequent filmmakers.  [[Danny Boyle]] cites Nicolas Roeg as a key influence on his work and counts it amongst his favourite films,<ref name="Jones (2009)"/><ref name="Empire (2007)"/> considering it to be "one of the masterpieces of the last century".<ref name="Freer (2019)" /> [[Mark Gatiss]], [[Steve Pemberton]], [[Reece Shearsmith]], and [[Jeremy Dyson]] drew upon ''Don't Look Now'' considerably for their television series ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]''; Pemberton ranks it among the top three British horror films of the 1960s and 1970s, and says that he wants things he has written to make audiences feel the way he felt when he watched ''[[The Wicker Man (1973 film)|The Wicker Man]]'' and ''Don't Look Now''.<ref name="Walsh (2005)"/><ref name="McLean (2001)"/><ref name="Cavendish (2005)"/> Similarly, [[Ryan Murphy (producer)|Ryan Murphy]] considers his television series ''[[American Horror Story]]'' to be a throwback to '60s and '70s psychological horror, citing ''Don't Look Now'', ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]'' and ''[[The Shining (film)|The Shining]]'' as particular examples.<ref name="Itzkoff (2011)"/> Thematic and narrative similarities with [[Lars von Trier]]'s ''[[Antichrist (film)|Antichrist]]'' have also been observed,<ref name="Emerson (2009)"/> with ''Antichrist's'' cinematographer, [[Anthony Dod Mantle]], commenting that he has watched ''Don't Look Now'' more times than any other film.<ref name="The Guardian (2009)"/> [[Fabrice Du Welz]], whose film ''[[Vinyan]]'' has often been compared to ''Don't Look Now'', has stated that it is a film he is "obsessed with", and one of his favourites,<ref name="Carnevale"/> while [[Lynne Ramsay]] cited it as an influence on ''[[We Need to Talk about Kevin (film)|We Need to Talk about Kevin]]'', which incidentally is also produced by Roeg's son, Luc.<ref name="Thorpe (2011)"/> [[Ami Canaan Mann]] has also acknowledged she was influenced by atmospheric thrillers such as ''[[Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' and ''Don't Look Now'' while directing her debut feature, ''[[Texas Killing Fields (film)|Texas Killing Fields]]'',<ref name="Farber (2011)"/> and [[Ari Aster]] acknowledged that it was a key influence on ''[[Hereditary (film)|Hereditary]]''.<ref name="TIFF (2018)" />

Its imagery has been directly referenced in several works. The 2006 [[James Bond film]], ''[[Casino Royale (2006 film)|Casino Royale]]'' contains a small [[Homage (arts)|homage]] where [[James Bond (character)|James Bond]] pursues a female character through Venice, catching glimpses of her through the crowds wearing a red dress.<ref name="Sony Pictures (2006)"/> The Belgium set thriller, ''[[In Bruges]]'', starring [[Colin Farrell]], includes a number of explicit references;<ref name="Horne (2008)"/> director [[Martin McDonagh]] said that the "Venice of ''Don't Look Now''" was the template for the depiction of Bruges in his film,<ref name="Hammond (2008)"/> and the film includes numerous thematic similarities, including one character stating that the film she is working on is a "[[pastiche]] of ''Don't Look Now''". ''[[Flatliners]]'', a 1990 supernatural thriller directed by [[Joel Schumacher]], also draws explicitly on the red-coated childlike figure by having a character terrorised by a child wearing a red coat;<ref name="James (1990)"/> coincidentally, the character who is being tormented is played by [[Kiefer Sutherland]], Donald Sutherland's son.  In the 2007 stage play of ''Don't Look Now'', written by [[Nell Leyshon]] and directed by [[Lucy Bailey (director)|Lucy Bailey]], the play made a conscious effort to bypass the film and be a faithful adaptation of du Maurier's short story, but it did however retain the iconic red mac from the film as worn by the elusive childlike figure.<ref name="Walker (2007)"/><ref name="Cavendish (2007)"/>

Its influence is less obvious but still apparent in ''[[Out of Sight]]'', a 1998 film directed by [[Steven Soderbergh]]. The intercutting technique used in the sex scene was used to similar effect in a sex scene featuring [[George Clooney]] and [[Jennifer Lopez]].<ref name="Morrison (2006)"/><ref name="Clarke (2006)"/>  The film's imagery and stylistic techniques have served as an inspiration to films such as ''[[Schindler's List]]'' directed by [[Steven Spielberg]],<ref name="O'Sullivan (2000)"/> ''[[Memento (film)|Memento]]'' by [[Christopher Nolan]],{{sfn|Mottram|2011|loc=({{Google books|yGUIxwIvMJoC|online copy|page=172}})}}{{sfn|Kania|2009|p=133}}<ref name="Gilbey (2011-3-10)"/> ''[[The Dark (2005 film)|The Dark]]'' by [[John Fawcett (director)|John Fawcett]],<ref name="French (2006-4-9)"/> ''[[Frozen (2005 film)|Frozen]]'' by [[Juliet McKoen]],<ref name="French (2006-1-29)"/> ''[[Submarine (2010 film)|Submarine]]'' by [[Richard Ayoade]],<ref name="Bradshaw (2011-3-17)"/> and ''[[Snow White and the Huntsman]]'' by [[Rupert Sanders]].<ref name="Dodes (2012-5-24)"/> [[David Cronenberg]] regards it as the most frightening film he has seen,<ref name="Cronenberg (2014)"/> and its influence has been detected on Cronenberg's ''[[The Brood]]''.<ref name="Ebert (1979)"/> Paranormal investigator, [[Danny Robins]], presenter of the radio series  ''[[Uncanny (radio series)|Uncanny]]'', is a huge admirer, describing it as "a really beautiful, amazingly shot, artistic movie, and yet, it still manages to be really bloody scary". Robins wears a red coat in the television spin-off of his show as a homage.<ref name="Taylor (2023)" />

Roeg frequently drew upon the world of pop music for his work, casting [[Mick Jagger]] in ''[[Performance (film)|Performance]]'', [[David Bowie]] in ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth (film)|The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' and [[Art Garfunkel]] in ''[[Bad Timing]]'', and in turn his films have served as inspiration for musicians. [[Big Audio Dynamite]] wrote a tribute song to Roeg, called "[[E=MC2 (song)|E=MC<sup>2</sup>]]", which included lyrical references to ''Don't Look Now''—among Roeg's other films—along with clips from it in the video, directed by Luc Roeg,<ref name="Wood (2005)"/> while [[Sophie Ellis-Bextor]] performed a "pop synth homage" to ''Don't Look Now'' with her song, "[[Catch You]]",<ref name="Eyre (2007)"/> and portions of the film were sampled in the [[M83 (band)|M83]] song "America".<ref name="TheStar"/>