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Actor: Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder played Lois Lane across four Superman films, and the performance is built on speed and impatience, which makes the character a working reporter instead of a decorative one.

Black Christmas and Sisters gave her earlier horror leads, and Sisters is the De Palma one worth seeking.

She experienced a widely publicised manic episode in 1996 and afterward became an outspoken advocate on mental health and on political causes. She died in 2018.

Black Christmas (1974) film posterJohn Saxon

Black Christmas (1974)

A sorority house is terrorized by an unseen caller during Christmas break, in the proto-slasher that preceded Halloween by four years. Black Christmas is Bob Clark's 1974 Canadian horror film depicting a sorority house during Christmas break terrorized by an…

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The Amityville Horror (1979) film posterDon Stroud

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror is Stuart Rosenberg's 1979 American horror film depicting the Lutz family who move into a Long Island house where a mass murder occurred the previous year, and the supernatural events that allegedly drive them out twenty-eight days…

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