Nothing’s quite as scary as the films you watched alone and late at night as a kid, even grainy reruns of old TV movies. That was my introduction to No Place to Hide, a 1981 CBS thriller starring Kathleen Beller (Dynasty‘s Kirby Anders). She plays Amy Manning, a mousy art student with a stalker, a man in a ski-mask and dark sunglasses. He finds her when she’s alone at night and opts for psychological torture over physical, telling her “Soon, Amy, soon.”
This October, nostalgic for something spooky, I decided to rewatch it and see if it held up. The search was more complicated than expected—it’s not currently available on subscription streaming services, DVD, or Blu-ray. It was last released on videocassette in 1989, by Video Treasures (later known as Anchor Bay). Fortunately, several retro YouTube channels currently offer it, one complete with original commercials.
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