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Worse things are happening in Texas

So this is one of the classics.

Sally (Marilyn Burns) and Franklin Hardesty (Paul A. Partain) are traveling to check on their grandfather’s grave along with a group of friends. Along the way, they meet no end to trouble. First, they end up picking up a hitchhiker (Edwin Neal), because that’s always a good idea. Especially when the hitchhiker is clearly a freak even before he starts setting off so many red flags, it’s a little surprising he remained in the car as long as he did. Then they run into Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), who not only butchers them like cattle but eats them like it too.

What's the tale?

They though they could say bye, bye birdie. They thought wrong.

The Nightingale follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), an Irish convict in a penal colony where she works at a bar singing for and serving British soldiers. It is there that she meets Lieutenant Hawkins (Sam Claflin) and his cronies, who not only rape her repeatedly but also murder her husband and infant daughter. When Clare comes to afterwords, she not only finds that Hawkins has already left on an impromptu journey with his men and some other convicts, but that it’s his word against hers for what happed. So she decides to take justice into her own hands.

He’s right behind you.

No, seriously, turn around and see for yourself.

Once again, I have no official gender and horror movie for today, because right now we’re in the middle of spring break. So instead, I’ve selected a more recent film that deals with gender and horror—the second adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man. When I say that I, of course, mean second official adaptation, there have been millions of other things influenced by the novel. Such as Hollow Man, which has a few things in common with this version.

“Hey man, my name’s Adolf. This is my good friend Jojo.”

You may be surprised how hilarious Nazis can be.

Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a small child growing up in Nazi Germany who’s enrolled in the Hitler Youth camp and fanatic about their ideology. Unfortunately for Jojo, but not the rest of the world, his youthful enthusiasm, naivety, and inexperience doesn’t make him the best Nazi. As shown during a scene where he ends up giving himself a limp and a facial scar that everyone makes of point of saying is hideous, even though it’s one of those scars that doesn’t diminish their actor’s good looks at all.

This is…

To start with, I have one thing to say.

Get Out is the better movie. I’ve now seen Us twice, and while it’s gotten better the second time, Get Out is still the better movie. Yeah, I thought I’d get that one out of the way immediately.

It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to…

Come back next week for an even more awful play on words.

This week in my gender and horror class, we’re talking about Hereditary. Luckily for me, we’re allowed to skip two assignments for that class, but that means I don’t have a movie. So instead, I decided to talk about the Slumber Party Massacre series, a trilogy of horror movies that were all written and directed by women.

A good reboot that nobody wanted.

A great thing about the internet is movies being released online before they’re out on DVD.

Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate, I’ve decided to look at a film that was made by and stars a cast of mostly women. Charlie’s Angels (2019), written, directed, and starring Elizabeth Banks.

The joys of motherhood II: having a teenager

Plus some other stuff about religion and gender.

Actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) has a problem. Several strange things happening around her young daughter Regan (Linda Blair), such as her daughter’s new behavior. As if she’s been possessed by a demon. Because a demon has possessed her, I hope I’m not spoiling that for anyone.

The joys of motherhood

Though if you want a real horror story, you should asky my mom how I was born.

“You look great. It’s that haircut that looks awful. You want the truth, honey, that’s the worst mistake you’ve ever made.” No Guy (John Cassavetes), the worst mistake Rosemary (Mia Farrow) ever made was marrying you. On the night that they plan to conceive a baby, Rosemary ends up passing out, and when she wakes up with scratches on her body, Guy says that he went right on ahead because he “didn’t want to miss baby night.” Then, when Rosemary tells him that she dreamed that she raped by someone inhuman, Guy responds “thanks a lot.” Okay, it’s the ‘60s, so that type of thing was probably acceptable back then, but Guy is such an a*s even outside of that.

In a small town…

I hope you like this movie more than I did.

As I’ve previously mentioned in my Pet Sematary review, typically I’d start my review with a basic outline of what happens before going into my thoughts and feelings. I feel like in most cases, that’s a good way to structure a review. Okay, so now I’m going to tell you what Knives and Skin is about. Okay, so what is this movie about?