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Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist in Gaslight (1944)

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CHILDREN OF THE CORN dir. Fritz Kiersch, 1984

Patty McCormack & Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed (1956)

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED 1960, dir. Wolf Rilla

Anne Hamilton-Byrne, glamorous, manipulative cult leader. She founded a cult known as The Family, stealing children and injecting them with LSD.

The compound where the cult resided was raided by authorities in 1987 and children were finally taken away after years of abuse and neglect.

Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark (1988) co-written and directed by Fred Schepisi. Fred was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has 18 director credits, from a 1968 short, his first feature in 1976, to 2013. His entry among my best 1,001 movies is Six Degrees of Separation. His other notable credits include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Plenty, Roxanne, IQ, Last Orders, and two episodes of Empire Falls.

Meryl Streep in a photo shoot for Interview magazine in 1981. 

Tippi Hedren, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963

TIPPI HEDREN & SUZANNE PLESHETTE as Melanie Daniels & Annie Hayworth in THE BIRDS (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

The Birds (1963)

Publicity still for “The Birds” (1963)

The Honeymoon Killers (1970) dir. Leonard Kastle

"Lemon meringue!"

𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙉𝙤𝙬 1973