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Curtis Harrington loosely adapted this film’s plot into Dennis Hopper’s debut film, Night Tide. This film’s protagonist has a nightmare of a man dressed as St. John. In a shot from this film, the protagonist (15[1])is framed behind a museum statue of Anubis. An engineer’s shadow is framed such that his T-square resembles a cross in a shot from the climax of this film, which features a dark pool scene emulated by It Follows. The theme of a remake of this film plays over the montage (-5[1])of Shosanna preparing for movie night (15[1])in Inglourious Basterds. (15[2])The plot of a film resembling this one is the first that Luis recounts to Valentín in (*) Kiss of the Spider Woman. (10[1])A sequence of tracking shots (10[1])of the high heels of this film’s protagonist (10[1])is suddenly interrupted (10[1])by the sound (10[1])of a bus’s engine, (10[2])which is a moment (10[1])often considered “cinema’s first jumpscare.” For 10 points, Val Lewton produced what Jacques Tourneur film about a woman who believes (10[1])that arousal turned her ancestors into panthers? ■END■

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