Girl Meets Freak
This movie is dumb but I had fun watching it (and I don’t know why)
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: Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Girl Meets Context: Children of the 1990s know Rob Zombie as the frontman of White Zombie, a.k.a. the feral guy with dreads doing ‘magic hands’ in the “Thunder Kiss ’65″ video. But it turns out Zombie was dead serious about that video’s aesthetic statement – it wasn’t simply a bunch of empty references meant to … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Richard Donner’s The Omen (1976)
Girl Meets Context: In the wake of The Exorcist‘s massive popularity, dozens of “Satanic thrillers” were made in the mid-to-late 1970s, of which The Omen might be the most famous one. The film is about Robert Thorn, an American diplomat (played by screen legend Gregory Peck) who comes to believe that he may have unwittingly adopted the son of … 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: Richard Stanley’s Hardware (1990)
Girl Meets Context: On January 20, 2012 we queued up Richard Stanley’s 1990 cult film Hardware, a low-budget blend of science fiction and horror. The movie takes place during a Christmas Eve cease-fire in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. A soldier, Mo, is home on leave and brings his girlfriend Jill – an agoraphobic welder who … Continue reading
