The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2020 Halloween Movie Marathon continues with a spooky suspense masterpiece, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).

First, this week, Michael is getting into the Halloween spirit by planning some romantic outings here in Chicago that he and Nakea can enjoy together. Will Nakea opt for the haunted hotels? The graveyard with the disappearing statues? Or the cemetery turned public park where—in Poltergeist fashion—they moved the headstones, but not the bodies? (Or will Nakea—as seems far more likely—choose divorce?)

Then, we're enjoying Nakea's first viewing of Hitchcock's first American movie, and his only Oscar-winner for Best Picture: Rebecca, starring Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders, and Judith Anderson. Based on the classic Daphne du Maurier novel, Rebecca is a ghost story without a ghost, with its unnamed heroine haunted by the presence of her new husband's first wife.

Join us for a discussion about whether Rebecca is a love story, a horror movie, a stealth feminist manifesto, or—as The Unenthusiastic Critic sees it—a cautionary tale about marrying the wrong guy.

Program

00:00: Prologue: from Alfred Hitchcock Presents
00:40: Preliminary Discussion: Haunted Chicago
15:44: Interlude: from Rebecca
16:42: Cultural Osmosis: Pre-Viewing Discussion
22:41: Interlude: Re-Release Trailer
24:18: The Verdict: Post-Viewing Discussion
58:56: Outro and Next Week's Movie

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