I wrote something about slasher movies! You can read it now on The Hooded Utilitarian. Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Phantasm, Child’s Play… all their sequels are under discussion. Their quirks, their staggering lapses in logic, and their (mostly vain) attempts to make that “kill, kill, kill” formula seem fresh again. Thanks to HU for publishing it!
Tag Archives: Friday the 13th
Link Dump: #47
This week’s kitty is Pyewacket, the “familiar” for Kim Novak’s sultry witch in Bell, Book, and Candle. Novak’s using Pyewacket to bewitch Jimmy Stewart into falling for her… like any sensible person with magical powers would. And now I magically beseech you to read these links!
- According to Jezebel, Americans plan to spend $6.9 billion on Halloween this year, over twice as much as in 2005. And it’s worth every penny. (The comments on that article include some amazing costume ideas, too.)
- Popshifter’s September/October 2011 issue, “Halloween Horrors IV: The Awakening,” is now ready for your perusal. It’s got Lance Henriksen, My Bloody Valentine, Apollo 18, and much more.
- Here’s a 2-year-old article by Noah Berlatsky published over at Bright Lights Film Journal. I’m linking to it now because it’s called “The Child Is Father to the Child: On the Friday the 13th Series,” and that’s awesome.
- As part of his Halloween celebration, Marvin the Macabre wants you to send in your scary mixtapes!
- Film critics Matt Zoller Seitz and Kim Morgan take on the dark art of desire in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (aka “The Best Movie Ever”).
Alas, not even the rise of October has brought us any strange or twisted search terms beyond the usual porn-tastic clumps of words. Better luck next week, I guess.
Link Dump: #44
Aww, look, it’s a kitty experimented on by Vincent Price in the William Castle classic The Tingler! (And in other Vincent Price news, I finally won Five Frames From over at My New Plaid Pants. The answer was The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and I am ridiculously proud of that achievement.) Anyway, lest my gloating bore you, the links:
- Somebody awesome could always use your excess cash. This time, it’s Katie and Miles of the ShowShow Podcast. Donate away!
- In an interview with Randall King of the Winnipeg Free Press, Wizard of Winnipeg Guy Maddin discusses his new movie Keyhole, his lost film art installation Hauntings, and more. (I also learned from this that he’s married to the Kim Morgan. Which is so fucking cool.)
- “[Lars von Trier] was a rude fucking bastard.“
- In The Guardian, Mark Cousins writes perceptively about cinematic revolutions.
- Jeff Allard writes most entertainingly about the aftermath of the original Friday the 13th.
- Nancy Upton gives a big “fuck you” to American Apparel and their condescending, fat-phobic model search with “That’s not our demographic.”
- David Cairns look at all the Polanski protagonists who never seem to get anywhere. (Coincidentally, Tom McCormack writes about Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy for Alt Screen.)
We had some pretty mind-boggling search terms this week. Like, um, “ילדות קטנות בסקס,” which is apparently Hebrew for “little girls sex.” So now we’re attracting the attention of Israeli pedophiles? Great. Just great. Less off-putting and more hilarious was “tintelating pictures.” I love it when people are so horny that they can’t spell. Finally, we had “i just wanna shit on society,” which really speaks for itself.