Girl Meets Freak
Aussie Horror
Movie Discussion: Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Girl Meets Context: Throughout the month of June we will be watching Ozploitation films from the 1970s and 1980s. This week we tackle a metaphysical mystery film about a group of schoolgirls in 1900s Australia who go for a Valentine’s Day picnic at the local landmark Hanging Rock, a volcanic protrusion in the landscape, but several … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Russell Mulcahy’s Razorback (1984)
Girl Meets Context: Throughout the month of June we will be watching Ozploitation films from the 1970s and 1980s. We begin with this giant-boar-run-amok cult gem. Directed by Russell Mulcahy, who went on to direct the beloved fantasy/sci-fi hybrid Highlander (and to launch both Showtime’s American adaptation of Queer As Folk and MTV’s current hit show Teen Wolf), the film … Continue reading
Double Feature Discussion, Part 2: The Spierig Brothers’ Daybreakers (2009)
Girl Meets Context: After a rough couple of weeks complicated by insane work commitments, personal tragedy, and inclement weather, we finally watched our next two movies just days apart. We chose two vampire flicks that both draw heavily from the zombie and splatter movie traditions: Robert Rodriguez’s Tarantino-scripted From Dusk Till Dawn and Daybreakers, an … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (2005)
Girl Meets Context: Sometime in 2009 Kristine and I started our “Horror Movie Club,” watching a horror movie every couple of weeks together. Things went smoothly until we hit our first snag: a late-night screening of Wolf Creek that rattled Kristine to the bone and still, to this day, remains the only movie we’ve watched that … Continue reading
