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Body Horror · Horror · Mumblecore · Romance

Lucky McKee’s May and the Retelling of Frankenstein for the Indie Rom-Com Era

January 22, 2023

Not only does May challenge the tropes of mumblecore and indie-rom com movies, but it also retells elements of Frankenstein, offering a female protagonist who is both monster and monster-maker.[…]

Crime · Gothic · Horror · Melodrama · Photo Essays

To Cut or Not to Cut? The POV Shots in Eyes Without a Face (and how they differ from those in Psycho)

March 16, 2022

Franju demonstrates how beauty hides pain, until pain becomes beautiful. * * * Georges Franju’s Les yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face is a reliably haunting film, a beautiful nightmare[…]

Activist & Political · Comedy · Horror

Watch it Again! Society (Brian Yuzna, 1989)

January 16, 2018

Yes, Society supplies the body horror, well crafted in all its sticky glory by Japanese effects expert Screaming Mad George, but it fuses it with teen movie, conspiracy thriller, and[…]

Tagged: body horror

Lucky McKee’s May and the Retelling of Frankenstein for the Indie Rom-Com Era

To Cut or Not to Cut? The POV Shots in Eyes Without a Face (and how they differ from those in Psycho)

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Watch it Again! Society (Brian Yuzna, 1989)

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