Back in 1999, audiences weren’t sure what to make of Eyes Wide Shut .

What would be Stanley Kubrick’s final film (the directing giant died just six days after screening his first cut for Warner Bros. and the film’s stars, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) revolved around a secret society of powerful figures in New York City who took part in sex rituals with prostitutes.

When an interloper stumbles into their affairs in the form of Cruise’s character, Dr. Bill Harford, disturbing things begin to happen. A piano player goes missing. A sex worker dies of a conveniently timed drug overdose. And a creepy mask appears on a pillow beside Bill’s sleeping wife, Alice, played by Cruise’s then-wife Kidman.

Back in 1999, audiences weren’t sure what to make of Eyes Wide Shut .

What would be Sta

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