Girl Meets Freak
Total trash…I loved it!
Movie Discussion: James Wong’s Final Destination (2000)
Girl Meets Context: Horror Franchise Month takes a turn into teen antics with the first Final Destination film. In the movie, a pellucid teenage goblin named Alex (Devon Sawa) has a terrifying vision of a plane crash during his high school class trip to Paris. He and several of his peers are thrown off the plane, … 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
Movie Discussion: Lamberto Bava’s Demons [Dèmoni] (1985)
Girl Meets Context: Directed by the son of legendary Italian horror auteur Mario Bava, Demons takes some of the giallo tradition’s stylish nonsense and blends in supernatural elements, over-the-top gore setpieces and a bleak dystopic worldview. Demons was stewarded and co-written by horror meastro Dario Argento, and may be the most celebrated of Lamberto Bava’s extensive filmography. … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Michael Winner’s The Sentinel (1977)
Girl Meets Context: Of all the post-Exorcist films that came out in the 1970s, The Sentinel may be the craziest. The film is filled with weird details, gonzo moments, bizarre digressions and shocking images. The movie was made by Michael Winner, a British director best known at the time for his grimy action movies starring the likes of Charles … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: William Lustig’s Maniac (1980)
Girl Meets Context: The brainchild of character actor Joe Spinell, who stars as Frank Zito and who developed the story and co-wrote the script, Maniac is one of the most notorious of the grindhouse slashers of the early 1980s. It has the honor of being one of the few movies critic Gene Siskel walked out of and was … Continue reading
Movie Discussion: Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981)
Girl Meets Context: The premise of The Evil Dead couldn’t be simpler: five college-aged friends rent a remote cabin in the Tennessee woods for the weekend and are terrorized by demonic forces. Those forces are unleashed when they find and play tape recordings of a scholar translating passages of an ancient Sumerian text (referred to in … Continue reading
