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The next pick in our new weekly film social is the 1942 flick that ushered in a new wave of cinematic shocks and took on that scariest subject of all, female sexuality, says Clarisse Loughrey

’s magnum opus flopped at the box office and drained the coffers of RKO, the studio looked to producer Val Lewton to make them a quick buck. What better than a low-budget horror film? He hired some of Welles’s old crew and borrowed the staircase fromfor his set. But Lewton was a virtuoso in his own right, not a simple workhorse.

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