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Scene from the Thai film “Shutter” (2004). Asian ghosts always have an agenda. Typically, it’s one motivated by a desire for revenge, or a need for justice. In the Thai supernatural-thriller Shutter (2004, directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom), the heroine Jane mistakenly believes that the female ghost who torments both she and her boyfriend Tun is seeking revenge for the hit-and-run accident in which the mysterious woman was killed. There’s much more to the story, however, as a dark secret connecting Tun to the dead woman is ultimately revealed.
The true horror of this film may be the fact that, even though Tun’s deeply troubling past has been shown, Jane seems to be supportive of him at the finale — so much for justice and gender equality in Thailand. I thoroughly enjoyed this Thai ghost story and, even though an English-language remake was released in 2008, I feel no need to watch it. I can read subtitles just fine, thanks. May admires her Frankenstein-like creation. The desperate ache of loneliness never seemed so palpable as it does in Lucky McKee’s May (2002). When our titular heroine, a socially-awkward misfit whose best friend is a (very creepy) doll, fails to find her true love, she takes matters into her own hands and fashions herself one. Angela Bettis, a long-time acting staple in McKee’s films, turns in a surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of a character who’s essentially a psychotic serial killer.
A criminally neglected film. Keir Dullea, all turtlenecks and shaggy 1970’s hair, as Peter in “Black Christmas” (1974). You know a relationship’s going south when you begin to suspect your lover of being a serial killer. Such was the case between Jess and her turtleneck-wearing boyfriend Peter in Black Christmas (1974). When Jess reveals to Peter her unwanted pregnancy and plans to have an abortion, his reaction is not only negative, but downright crazy in its intensity. But did this news, plus his failed piano recital — artists, they’re so sensitive — push Peter to the brink of insanity? Hello, my darklings!
The leaves are down, the sweaters are on, and it’s that time of the year that Lady Lazarus carefully crafts a list of horror films to whet your pre-Halloween appetites. Traditionally, I’ve had a theme for each Halloween list, such as “” or ““, but this year I thought I’d open up and share with you, plain and simple, the horror films I’ve been watching of late. Some are new, and some are just new to me.
Perhaps there’ll be a discovery or two for your own ghoulish viewing pleasure. Isabelle Adjani proclaims “He is very tired.
He made love to me all night” in Andrzej Zulawski’s challenging film Possession (1981)1. I first learned of Andrzej Zulawski’s cult classic Possession (1981) through the writings of Canada’s First Lady of Horror, who’s an enthusiastic champion of this film. Equal parts arthouse, domestic drama, and gory supernatural-horror, this film defies any attempt at easy categorization. Ostensibly an unflinching gaze at a marriage in turmoil, the film ultimately — and quite surprisingly — veers into the realm of abjection, absurdity and visceral horror.
Isabelle Adjani plays her character’s descent into madness to the hilt, earning her the Best Actress award at the Cannes Festival for Possession in 1981. Sam Neill turns in a strong — if affected and somewhat stylized — performance as her estranged husband. I don’t want to give away any of the plot points, as the film works best the less you know about it. If you like your horror with a big dash of the unexpected, then you’ll probably enjoy this one. If you just want to see some naked coeds get sliced, steer clear.
Investigating a strange noise, Samantha ventures upstairs with a kitchen knife in Ti West’s “The House of the Devil” (2009). I had heard many good things about Ti West’s The House of the Devil(2009) and, fortunately, those things turned out to be true. This is an accomplished psychological-horror in the vein of Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, where the terror builds on a slow-boil. What’s that, you say? You’ve been invited to babysit for creepy strangers in an isolated, in-the-middle-of-nowhere house?
You need the money, and what could possibly go wrong? Let’s suspend that disbelief and just roll with it, ’cause it’s a fun, suspenseful ride.
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Kudos go to the art direction and costume design, as The House of the Devil boasts the most authentic recreation of that 1980s-look that I’ve personally viewed on film. Nice little cameo by that darling of ’80s horror, Dee Wallace ( The Hills Have Eyes and The Howling). Oh, Joss Whedon. You don’t always hit it out of the park, but when you do wow!
Admittedly, taking the piss out of the slasher-horror is a little like shooting fish in a barrel and, yes, this is well-trodden ground that the Scream franchise visited sixteen years ago. All the same, Cabin in the Woods (2012) seems fresh and original, and is heaps of fun with a clever twist or two.
Again, I don’t want to spoil the surprise, so I’ll simply end with — zombie redneck torture family. Placing the bets in “Cabin in the Woods” (2012).SPOILER ALERT. Wanna know what all the various beasties and baddies were in Cabin in the Woods? The horror genre has traditionally loved the anthology format. This love affair possesses a kind of logic. If one particular scenario doesn’t frighten you, then perhaps the next one will do the trick — after all, fear can be very subjective.
One of the major pitfalls of anthologies is that they’re often hit-or-miss in terms of ratio of success. Such is the case with the 2012 ‘found-footage’ anthology V/H/S which, although it’s initial premise seemed promising, suffered from it’s weaker components. The first 35-minutes of hand-held shaky-cam is nauseating to the point of being almost unwatchable, though this does improve with the subsequent stories. The best offerings in this anthology were the fourth story of a couple communicating via FaceTime, and the final segment — created by a team of directors out of L.A. Who call themselves Radio Silence — which follows a group of guys trying to find a Halloween party. The Lesbian Vampire. Theodora: Is this another one of your crazy ideas?
Eleanor: I’m not crazy! Theodora: Crazy as a loon! You really expect me to believe that you’re sane and the rest of the world is mad?
Eleanor: Well why not? The world is full of inconsistencies. Full of unnatural beings, nature’s mistakes they call you for instance!
The text above is dialogue from Robert Wise’s film The Haunting (1963) in which Dr. Markway, a researcher into paranormal activity, has assembled a group to investigate the reputed haunting of the gothic New England mansion Hill House. Amongst the group are the clairvoyant Theodora, a bold, outspoken woman who exudes worldly sophistication, and Eleanor, an awkward spinster who’s spent most of her adult life caring for her sick mother. In spite of their differences, Theodora befriends the mousy Eleanor, and there’s even the hint of romantic interest — however unlikely — emanating from Theodora. Director Robert Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding conceived of the Theodora character as lesbian, which would be one of the earliest appearances of a queer character in cinematic horror.
Of course, the social climate of the early 1960’s meant that references to Theodora’s sexual orientation were all very codified and subtle, but Eleanor’s accusation of “unnatural beings” and “nature’s mistakes” allude not only to Theo’s preference in romantic partners, but they clearly establish homosexuality as an indication of deviance and ‘unnaturalness’. Claire Bloom stars as Theodora (far left), Julie Harris as Eleanor (centre) and Rosalie Crutchley as the stony and gloriously creepy groundskeeper Mrs. Dudley in Robert Wise’s “The Haunting” (1963). As was discussed in, queerness and the fluidity of gender identity in horror fiction is frequently a sign of mental illness. The cross-dressing serial killer — Norman Bates, for instance — and the homicidal, lovesick lesbian from Aja’s Haute Tension are examples of blurred gender boundaries being symptomatic of mental instability.
While the character of Theodora in Wise’s The Haunting is not portrayed as violent nor mentally ill, her lesbianism marks her as ‘unnatural’ as the haunted Hill House in which the drama unfolds. This notion is certainly ironic given that it is the socially-awkward Eleanor, and not Theodora, who stands out as “the one who doesn’t belong” within the group. That’s not my neck!” Vampire love bite from “Twins of Evil” (1971).
This takes us to the third most common female trope in horror fiction: the Lesbian, and specifically the Lesbian Vampire. Why vampire, you ask? This trope has its roots in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu’s novella (1872) about the predatory love of a female vampire for a young woman.
Le Fanu’s novella was influential not only on Bram Stoker’s Dracula — which it predated by 25 years — but serves to this day as the source chiefly consulted for the female vampire. (See my post on for more on this topic). The reason for the popularity of the Lesbian Vampire seems fairly straightforward: titillation, pure and simple.
Wikipedia sums this up neatly: This was a way to hint at or titillate with the taboo idea of lesbianism in a fantasy context outside the heavily censored realm of social realism (Weiss 1993). Also, the conventions of the vampire genre — specifically, the mind control exhibited in many such films — allow for a kind of forced seduction of presumably straight women or girls by lesbian vampires.
In the early 1970’s, Britian’s Hammer Studios created the much beloved Karnstein Trilogy, a series of lesbian vampire films very loosely based on Le Fanu’s novella: The Vampire Lovers (1970), Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Twins of Evil (1971). I’ve only seen the first film, which stars the iconic ‘Hammer Girl’ Ingrid Pitt and is quite giggle-worthy. File under ‘guilty pleasure.’ For the most part, the Lesbian Vampire is more softcore than horror, and bears little resemblance to the gender-bending serial killers mentioned earlier. What they do have in common, however, is the demarcation of Otherness — even the racy, breast-biting vampire of Twins of Evil is ultimately portrayed as ‘aberrant’ and ‘deviant.’ In Part IV of this series of posts, I’ll address the Rape-Revenge Girl. I'm a Canadian visual artist & educator who works with animation, drawing, printmaking and installation. I teach art and design courses at OCAD University and Sheridan College.
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Contents. Plot Alex Miles and her friends Trey, Sophie and Brent go into the woods of West Virginia on a rafting trip. As they are camping, Sophie and Brent begin to have sex, and Alex leaves to find Trey. Three Fingers arrives and kills Sophie with an arrow. The arrow also wounds Brent, who flees.
As Three Finger begins to eat Sophie, Alex watches in horror from behind a bush. Meanwhile, Trey returns and tries to flee, but is chased down and killed by Three Finger. Brent is killed by a wire trap, leaving Alex the sole survivor. Later, Sheriff Carver and Deputy Lane receive a report about the missing group.
Two days later, prison guard Nate is assigned with Walter and Preslow to transfer a group of prisoners to a distant prison. The prisoners are Crawford, a car thief; Floyd, a serial killer; Brandon, who claims he was wrongly convicted of murder; Chavez, the leader of a crime organization; and Willy, an undercover agent who is posing as a prisoner to get information from Chavez. While driving, their bus is rammed by Three Finger's truck and crashes in the woods of West Virginia, forcing them to continue on foot.
Walter is badly injured, but Nate rescues him from the truck before it explodes. They follow Alex, and on the way, find an abandoned armored truck. Chavez tells Nate to check the cab of the truck. Nate finds a set of keys and a gun.
He secretly gives the gun to Walter, after handing the keys over to Chavez. Chavez uses the keys to open the back of the truck, and finds several bags of money. He intends to steal the money and demands that everyone carry two bags, but Walter refuses because of his injury. In a last-ditch effort to regain control of the situation, Walter pulls out the gun and tries to shoot Chavez. Unfortunately, the gun is not loaded and Chavez shoots and kills Walter. Chavez forces those left alive to carry the money and they continue on foot. Along the trail, they stumble upon a trap, set by Three Toes, Three Finger's nephew.
They escape then catch the nephew and behead him, leaving a trophy on the spent booby trap for Three Finger to find as a deterrent. This enrages Three Finger, who sets traps for the group, killing first Willy, then Crawford. Meanwhile, Sheriff Carver looks for Nate, and Deputy Lane sets out look for the missing group of rafters. Sheriff Carver finds the group but is killed by Three Finger. Chavez and Floyd get into a fist fight while Brandon watches, allowing Nate and Alex to escape.
After the fight, Chavez and Brandon leave the knocked out Floyd behind. When they hear Alex and Nate talking, they lay the money down before taking them hostage again. They find the location where the. Floyd finds the money and attempts to run away with it, but he stumbles on some rocks and cries out.
Chavez hears him and finds Floyd, only to see Three Finger lobbing a molotov cocktail at Floyd, killing him and burning all the money. Chavez gives Alex to Three Finger to improve his chances of survival. Three Finger drags Alex into his truck and drives off. He secures Alex at his house and goes back out to hunt the rest of the survivors.
Nate wants to go after Alex, but Chavez threatens to kill him if he does. Fed up, Brandon knocks Chavez unconscious and lets Nate go. After waking up, Chavez finds Three Finger and fights him, but Three Finger overpowers and kills him. Alex awakens in Three Finger's house and sees Deputy Lane die in a razor wire net. Nate finds Three Finger's house and frees Alex, but Three Finger attacks him. Alex saves him by stabbing Three Finger.
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Nate and Alex drive away in his tow truck, but Three Finger follows them, leaps on top of the truck, and causes them to crash into a tree. As the truck catches fire, Brandon appears and pulls Alex out. While Brandon helps Nate, Three Finger attacks them, but Nate apparently kills him with a meathook. Nate throws Three Finger on top of the car to explode and burning Three Finger's body and melting it. Afterwards, a U.S.
Marshal team arrives and rescues Nate and Alex. Sometime later, Nate greedily returns to take the remaining money from the armored truck. Karma takes its toll and Brandon appears from nowhere and betrays him, shooting him in the back with an arrow. While Brandon takes the money, an unknown cannibal (presumably Three Finger) appears and brutally bludgeons him to death with a crude club. Tom Frederic as Nate Wilson. as Alex Miles.
Gil Kolirin as Floyd. Christian Contreras as Willy.
Jake Curran as Crawford. Tom McKay as Brandon. as Walter. as Carlos Chavez. as Sophie.
as Trey. as Brent. Borislav Petrov as Three Toes.
Borislav Iliev as Three Finger. Mike Straub as Preslow. Bill Moody as Sheriff Calvin Carver. Emma Clifford as Deputy Ally Lane. as Warden Ladew.
Todd Jensen as U.S. Marshal. Vlado Mihailov as U.S. Marshal Davis Production Shooting took place in. The only returning character was Three Finger; however he was played by a different actor, the third in as many films. Release The film was released on and on October 20, 2009. The film earned $1,800,000 in its first week, and has earned over $5,600,000 to date.
Reception All four of the reviews reported by are counted as negative. Bloody Disgusting said, 'If WT2 raised the bar, then WT3 lowers it right back down to where it was, and possibly a notch or two lower.' References.