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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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The Unusual Leading Lady

"I watched it for the first time. I've now watched it twice in prep for this." "It's very well directed. It's John Carpenter. There's some amazing suspense in this". 'There are some genuinely jumpy moments as well, which we'll talk about' The film is so focused on women and you just don't expect that from a 70s straight white male - because of what we know and of the era. And even with my actors head on, even the so many lines, she starts to say something and then stops halfway through and then says it again," he adds.

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