Day: November 11, 2025
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Lucy Comes To Stay
Beneath the polyester sheen and liberated rhetoric of the 1970s festered a quieter, more insidious reality. The decade’s id was not just in the discotheques, but in the sterile hallways of the asylum, where inconvenient women were sent to be forgotten. Robert Bloch’s 1972 anthology film, Asylum, understands this implicitly. It is not merely a […]
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Lucy Comes To Stay
Asylum (1972) is an altar to the things polite society of the 1970s swept under the rug—female autonomy, domestic control, and the medical machinery that could turn family disputes into diagnoses. In the segment “Lucy Comes to Stay,”those buried truths crawl upstairs, knock on the bedroom door, and smile. What follows is a chamber piece of duplicity […]
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