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HOME INVASION Pt 5: The Spiral Staircase (1946) & Dial M For Murder (1954)

The Evolution of Horror

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DialM for Murder

I feel that DialM for murder is the transitional film between rope and and rewindal. So I think it's the value of this film doesn't necessarily come from how it stands on its own merits. Whereas, I mean, rope, I know that he was quite unhappy with the success of it as a kind of formal experimentation. And you don't have that feeling here. He just really get the feeling that that he it's this sort of, he's sort of working through ideas that he might have got from rope to move on to rewindl.

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