Girl Meets Freak
Vampires & Blood-fiends
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: 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
Movie Discussion: Len Wiseman’s Underworld (2003)
Girl Meets Context: Horror Franchise Month concludes with this goth-inflected “vampires vs. werewolves” action-horror flick. The film is set in an unspecified European city (most probably Budapest) in which Selene (Kate Beckinsale), a vampire assassin or “death-dealer,” is caught up in a centuries-long conflict between Lycans (as werewolves are known in this universe) and vampires. It … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Harry Kümel’s Daughters of Darkness [Les Lèvres rouges] (1971)
Girl Meets Context: The 1960s and 1970s saw an explosion of European horror films (often referred to as EuroShock or Eurotrash horror). These movies were often highly stylized and erotic, but usually lacked solid narratives and compelling characters. Though beloved for their camp sensibility (such as the werewolf films of Spain’s Paul Naschy) or comical … 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
Double Feature Discussion, Part 1: Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Girl Meets Context: After a rough couple of weeks complicated by insane work commitments, personal tragedy, and inclement weather, we decided to do our first-ever “Creature Double Feature.” 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 Australian … 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
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
