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The Fear Inside (TMC Tuesday at 11:15...

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The Fear Inside (TMC Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. and 8 p.m.), Showtime’s 1992 paranoia thriller, is a cut or two above most suspense stories. With gripping performances by Christine Lahti, Dylan McDermott and Jennifer Rubin, and a script that takes the old premise of a victim trapped in her house and turns it into a sexual-psychological shocker.

Plan Nine From Outer Space (TNT Tuesday at 10:20 p.m.) is perhaps the most famous of the grade-Z movies made by the late Ed Wood Jr., who’s to be the subject of a film biography by David Lynch.

A Doll’s House (Showtime Monday at 5:30 p.m.), Joseph Losey’s 1973 film of Ibsen’s masterpiece, has a strong and spacious sense of time and place. While Jane Fonda is not so successful as the kittenish wife in the early years of her marriage, her later scenes are remarkable in the quiet intensity of her performance and the power of the author’s perceptions.

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