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Inside Cinemas
Catherine Bray takes a look at the most dramatic place to set a scene in film: the cinema.
It’s the most tongue-in-cheek location in cinema: a cinema. From Scream 2 to Cape Fear and Scary Movie to Gremlins 2, when filmmakers set a scene in a cinema, they get to mess with our minds in a uniquely personal way, putting us directly in the shoes - or should that be seats - of their characters, whether that’s in order to make us laugh knowingly or freeze in terror. Just keep telling yourself: it’s only a movie...
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