1991 Prove to be a hugely successful year for female-led thrillers, with sleeping with

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In 1992 Amanda Silver wrote a movie about a seemingly harmless white woman played by Rebecca

Desmorne, who infiltrates an affluent middle-class home with plans to snatch their children.

Later that year came a slicker sexier movie about a woman played by Jennifer Jason Lee,

who moves into a New York apartment with designs to befriend and ultimately become her roommate.

Both films had modest budgets, but both grossed huge amounts of money, and at a point in time when

the horror genre was famously experiencing a bit of a dip, these glossy high-end thrillers

became two of the most talked about and culturally relevant horror films of the era.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of home invasion, and we discuss the

hand that rocks the cradle and single white female.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror, my name is Mike Muncer, and as ever I am your host.

In this podcast we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre

one sub-jummer at a time. We are currently in the middle of our ninth season exploring the evolution

of home invasion, and this is part 17. In this week's episode, as that intro suggested,

we are going to be looking at two more glossy 90s thrillers, single white female,

and the hand that rocks the cradle. Both of these discussions will be spoilerific,

so please do give them both a watch, they're so much fun, before you listen to our discussion.

So joining me to discuss this week's films, I've got a brilliant returning guest with me.

She is a woman of many talents, she is a writer, producer, video editor, she does a lot of brilliant

video essays for the BFI. She was last here on the podcast discussing a girl walks home alone

at night with me, and she's back, it's Mahar Al-Badrawi, hello Mahar. Be careful, she's crazy.

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