Dawn of the Demme (Jonathan Demme in the 70s)
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THIS WEEK: Caged Heat (1974), Crazy Mama (1975), Last Embrace (1979)
Before Jonathan Demme was hanging out with David Byrne and winning Oscars, he was pumping out exploitation flicks for Roger Corman and doing weird Hitchcock homages
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