Girl Meets Freak
Infections & Plagues
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: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse [Kairo] (2001)
Girl Meets Context: Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira) spent about 10 years making low-budget and direct-to-video pinkies and yakuza pictures in Japan before he won a scholarship to the Sundance Institute in the early 1990s. He then rose to prominence making a series of intellectually and aesthetically rich (if methodical) horror movies, starting … Continue reading
Super-Sized Movie Discussion, Part 1: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 Weeks Later (2007)
Girl Meets Context: On Friday, December 2nd 2011, Kristine and I held our second Horror Movie Sleepover. We started with Frank Darabont’s 2007 adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Mist, and couldn’t believe all the Walking Dead cast members that were in it. Then we watched another 2007 horror movie, the Spanish supernatural thriller The Orphanage by J.A. … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Park Chan-wook’s Thirst [Bakjwi] (2009)
Girl Meets Context: On Wednesday November 23rd, Kristine and I gathered to watch the South Korean vampire film Thirst (2009). The film’s director, Park Chan-wook, is most famous for his “Vengeance” trilogy: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005). The movie stars Song Kang-ho (who also starred in 2006’s monster movie … Continue reading
