HOME INVASION Pt 5: The Spiral Staircase (1946) & Dial M For Murder (1954)
The Evolution of Horror
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The House
There is something of a kind of silent cinema vibe about this film, isn't there? Yeah. And critics have really run with that. I think there's like a, there's one reading of the film, but it's almost like a kind of an allegory of the shift from, from silent cinema to talkies. It does feel like a deliberate choice, right? That 90% of the movie is just in this house,. But we choose is to have that opening sequence with this kind of cinema moment.
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