Girl Meets Freak
A horror blog where an expert and a newbie discuss films from the canon.
Swedish Horror
Movie Discussion: Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] (1968)
Girl Meets Context: On February 17, 2012 we decided to go full-auteur and watch an Ingmar Bergman movie. Known primarily as an arthouse darling who made spiritually bleak meditations on the purposelessness of man’s search for meaning, he actually did make one movie that self-consciously adopted the tropes of horror cinema: 1968′s Hour of the Wolf. Starring … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In [Låt den rätte komma in] (2008)
Girl Meets Context: On February 2, 2012 we sat down to watch the Swedish vampire epic Let the Right One In, which was based on a book of the same name that came out in 2004. The movie follows a nerdy outcast middle-schooler named Oskar who spends his days being harassed by classmates and his nights … Continue reading
