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Movie Discussion: David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979)
Girl Meets Context: Throughout the month of May we will be watching 1970s films about cults and conspiracies – from covens of witches to New Age self-help groups to neo-Pagans. This week we discuss one of Cronenberg’s early efforts – in fact, The Brood is often considered to be the director’s first “classic” film. The movie … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Bryan Forbes’ The Stepford Wives (1975)
Girl Meets Context: Throughout the month of May we will be watching 1970s films about cults and conspiracies – from covens of witches to New Age self-help groups to neo-Pagans. This week we watched The Stepford Wives, Bryan Forbes’ adaptation of Ira Levin’s best-selling novel (note: Levin also authored Rosemary’s Baby). Forbes actually passed away this … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)
Girl Meets Context: Throughout the month of May we will be watching 1970s films about cults and conspiracies – from covens of witches to New Age self-help groups to neo-Pagans. This week we watched Ken Russell’s controversial art film. Based both on Aldous Huxley’s 1952 book The Devils of Loudun and the subsequent John Whiting play from … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End (2012)
Girl Meets Context: It’s Indie Horror Month, where we cover some of the best original and independent horror movies to be released in the last few years. John Dies at the End is cult director Don Coscarelli’s (of Phantasm and Bubba Ho-tep fame) adaptation of the cult novel by Cracked.com writer David Wong (which is actually a pseudonym … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Joseph Kahn’s Detention (2011)
Girl Meets Context: It’s Indie Horror Month, where we cover some of the best original and independent horror movies to be released in the last few years. Detention is the second feature film by director Joseph Kahn (his debut was the Ice Cube-starring motorbike racing flick Torque). Kahn is mostly known as a music video director, spending … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Neil Marshall’s The Descent (2005)
Girl Meets Context: It’s Indie Horror Month, where we cover some of the best original and independent horror movies to be released in the last few years. The Descent is the second feature by British director Neil Marshall (after 2002′s Dog Soldiers). In the film, a group of six friends (most of them Brits) go on a caving … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Faye Jackson’s Strigoi (2009)
Girl Meets Context: It’s Indie Horror Month, where we cover some of the best original and independent horror movies to be released in the last few years. Strigoi is British director Faye Jackson’s feature-length debut. It concerns Vlad (Cătălin Paraschiv), a med school dropout who has returned to the Romanian village of his childhood after spending time … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Ti West’s The House of the Devil (2009)
Girl Meets Context: It’s Indie Horror Month, where we cover some of the best original and independent horror movies to be released in the last few years. The House of the Devil was actually the second movie Kristine and I watched for horror movie club, way back in the days before our blog existed. We chose to revisit … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: James Gunn’s Super (2010)
Girl Meets Context: It’s Indie Horror Month, where we cover some of the best original and independent horror movies to be released in the last few years. Between 2009 and 2010, three films came out that all had a similar premise – setting the superhero story in a real-world milieu, as opposed to a fantastical one. … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Kerry Prior’s The Revenant (2009)
Girl Meets Context: It’s Indie Horror Month, where we cover some of the best original and independent horror movies to be released in the last few years. First up is The Revenant, the feature directorial debut of special effects guy Kerry Prior. The movie’s about Bart, an American G.I. killed in Iraq (played by Alias/Vampire Diaries baddie David Anders) … Continue reading
