In recognition of the fact that today will be the last day for the program "At the Movies" to have an original episode with current hosts, Michael Phillips and A. O. Scott, I'm reviewing the first two movie critics that initiated this trend of doing a film review program, the late Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, during their early TV career on PBS's "Sneak Previews". The earliest I've been able to review of that program on YouTube is this special episode that they did in 1980. They're discussing the trend at the time of having pretty young women being targeted and killed, not to mention raped, on film in a way that, according to them, makes you identify with the deranged stalker. They start with a TV commercial for Don't Answer the Phone, go to the Carol Kane phone scene from When a Stranger Calls, show a particularly disturbing trailer from The Bogeyman, and many disturbing P.O.V shots from the original Friday the 13th. Of particular scorn is visited upon I Spit on Your Grave especially by Roger when he mentions a middle-aged man sitting next to him really encouraging the rapes and killings occurring in that movie which also has a pretty depressing clip shown of the woman sunbathing in a boat getting disturbed by two men and another one swirling around her. One film that they don't consider part of the trend, because to them it doesn't make you have empathy for the killer, is the original Halloween which is shown of the scene where Jamie Lee Curtis hides in the closet while Michael Myers closes in on her. Now, some might argue Siskel and Ebert might have contradicted themselves because in the beginning scene of Halloween we are seeing things from Michael's point of view and thus partially identifying with him but it's only for that scene and not throughout like in the original Friday the 13th. Still, I agree with many of the comments printed below the YouTube screens that many of these movies they cited were mainly meant to simply provide extreme scares and not because of some possible trend of the mainly male filmmakers wanting to put the liberated woman back in her place. Though I have to admit, I have yet to watch many of these movies they've mentioned...