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Weirdhouse Cinema: House of Wax (1953)

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Police in Silence of the Lambs

It's not quite a Deus Ex Machina to be fair because we have seen the police investigating up to this point. So they don't show up from out of nowhere, but we're not really invested in the police characters. I guess it's ultimately in the grandeur's cinematic tradition. It's great to have that trope though, because when that trope is later subverted in films, it can be especially delightful and mean.

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