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HOME INVASION Pt 12: Someone's Watching Me! (1978) & When A Stranger Calls (1979)

The Evolution of Horror

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When a Stranger Cools

When a Stranger Cools is one of those really iconic movies, right? Like I feel like I heard about this movie from when I was a child. There's that classic kind of folkloric babysitter upstairs vibe to it. As a film, yes, I love it as we just mentioned it's little structurally odd because obviously, we'll talk about it. But I truly think that opening scene and even the ending in some way is an absolute masterclass in the marriage of tension, sound design, camera angles. Which we'll get into.

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