HOME INVASION Pt 15: Fatal Attraction (1987) & Misery (1990)
The Evolution of Horror
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Introduction
In 1987, director Adrian Lyon made a movie based on a short film by James Deere. Fatal Attraction was an intoxicating mix of soft core eroticism and operatic slasher horror that proved to be a winning formula at the box office. From a $14 million budget, the movie went on to gross over $300 million and received six Academy Award nominations. In its wake came a spate of high-end, glossy thrillers through the late 80s and early 90s. The films were often set within the home and focused on female characters in the tradition of the classic women's pictures of the 1940s but these women were often the villains.
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