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31 Days of Halloween- Day 27- Eyes of a Stranger (1981)

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Lauren Tewes stars as Jane, a Miami newsreader who suspects her neighbour of being a murderer who's crimes she reports on with shocking regularity. She lives with her blind deaf-mute sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh's first starring role). This was another example of a film I had been meaning to watch for the longest time (since …

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Pamela Voorhees, The Pregnant Man and The Deep Fried Rat: The Pre-Video Years of a Cult Movie Loving Crackpot

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I often think about my love of cinema, where it began and the influences on it, both film-based and what was going on around me. I was born in February 1975. My arrival into the world coincides with the day on which Stephen Murphy, the BBFC's secretary, first saw a new independent film called The …

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