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Movie Discussion: William Lustig’s Maniac (1980)
Girl Meets Context: The brainchild of character actor Joe Spinell, who stars as Frank Zito and who developed the story and co-wrote the script, Maniac is one of the most notorious of the grindhouse slashers of the early 1980s. It has the honor of being one of the few movies critic Gene Siskel walked out of and was … Continue reading
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Girl Meets Context: The Burning isn’t a well-known movie outside of horror movie fandom, but it is often cited as one of the best of the 1980s slasher craze (alongside films like My Bloody Valentine, Black Christmas and Alone in the Dark). It was produced at the same time as Friday the 13th Part 2 in order to cash in … Continue reading
Girl Meets Context: When the original Friday the 13th was a massive success, a sequel went into production almost immediately. Adrienne King, who played the first movie’s final girl, Alice, asked to be included only peripherally, after a bad experience being stalked by an obsessed fan. Friday the 13th Part 2 introduced Ginny, played by Amy Steel, often … Continue reading
Girl Meets Context: The enormous financial success of John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978 inspired Paramount Pictures to want to emulate its model: a slasher like Halloween could be made on the cheap with no-name actors and reap huge profits, even if only moderately successful at the box office. Friday the 13th, made really only as a cash-grab using this … Continue reading
Girl Meets Context: Jeepers Creepers came out in 2001 and was a big success. It was the fourth film made by director Victor Salva after his 15-month incarceration for sexually molesting a 12-year old child actor on the set of his first feature, Clownhouse (1989). Salva had already made Powder (1995) just after being released from prison, … Continue reading
![Movie Discussion: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host [Gwoemul] (2006)](http://girlmeetsfreak.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/thehost1.jpeg?w=65&h=65&crop=1 "Movie Discussion: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host [Gwoemul] (2006)")
Girl Meets Context: The Host was a blockbuster success in South Korea, earning the top spot as the highest-grossing Korean film of all time. It was also rapturously received internationally, winning the highest praise from Cahiers du cinéma, Manohla Dargis, Quentin Tarantino, et al. The movie begins with an American military pathologist ordering a reluctant Korean assistant to … Continue reading
Girl Meets Context: It is difficult to even synopsize The Cabin in the Woods because the plot of the movie relies so much on twists and turns… so please be forewarned that there will be massive SPOILERS AHEAD!!! If you haven’t gone to see this movie yet, rush to your local theater to see it, then … Continue reading
Girl Meets Context: Deep Blue Sea was the first movie made by Renny Harlin, the Finnish émigré and commercial Hollywood movie director, after his divorce from Geena Davis in 1998. He had directed Davis in both the well-loved spy thriller The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) and Cutthroat Island (1995), which still holds the title of the biggest box-office bomb … Continue reading
Girl Meets Context: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was made in 1986 but remained unreleased until 1990 because of its controversial content. The movie is a low-budget docudrama about a pair of mass murderers who are thinly-veiled fictionalized versions of Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. The film follows Henry, played by Michael Rooker, a laconic … Continue reading
