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This is a film that burns into life in its first few minutes, demanding we respect its monster. Not since Jaws has something from this genre had such perfect establishing shots. The focus on the unnamed young woman and her grisly fate is performed via the art of subtraction, and wouldn’t have been unexpected from Hitchcock himself. Nothing is explained, but the stakes are made obvious, and our pulse is made to race. Read the rest of this entry →