Girl Meets Freak
A horror blog where an expert and a newbie discuss films from the canon.
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Movie Discussion: Tony Maylam’s The Burning (1981)
Girl Meets Context: The Burning isn’t a well-known movie outside of horror movie fandom, but it is often cited as one of the best of the 1980s slasher craze (alongside films like My Bloody Valentine, Black Christmas and Alone in the Dark). It was produced at the same time as Friday the 13th Part 2 in order to cash in … 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
