Girl Meets Freak
This is horror movie homework – essential to know but not fun to complete
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: James Wan’s Saw (2004)
Girl Meets Context: We kick off Horror Franchise Month with the first film in the top-grossing horror franchise of all time. Like many horror movie success stories, Saw was made for a song – a mere 1.2 million – and proved to be insanely profitable when it grossed over a hundred million dollars. Kicking off a long-running … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Tom Six’s The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010)
Girl Meets Context: Director Tom Six has good taste in some things. He cites Pier Paolo Pasolini, David Lynch, David Cronenberg and Takashi Miike as his cinematic idols. Six allegedly came up with the idea for The Human Centipede (First Sequence) by amalgamating some dirty child molesters jokes he once told with his own experiences as … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980)
Girl Meets Context: The enormous financial success of John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978 inspired Paramount Pictures to want to emulate its model: a slasher like Halloween could be made on the cheap with no-name actors and reap huge profits, even if only moderately successful at the box office. Friday the 13th, made really only as a cash-grab using this … Continue reading
