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@kansaswoman.bsky.social

6 months ago

Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine (1993) argues that horror often portrays women as terrifying through the lens of abjection, i.e., that which disturbs borders, order, identity (Kristeva, 1982, 4... TikTok video by duncan b barlow | writer

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@jprr.bsky.social

8 months ago

The Wrong Kind of Darkness: Werner Herzog’s Mishandling of Nosferatu There is a 2024 remake of Nosferatu. I have not watched it because, well, it’s a 2024 remake of Nosferatu. The words alone give me a bad feeling. To be fair, though, Werner Herzog already ruined No…

Murnau’s Nosferatu understood horror’s need for myth and closure. Herzog’s 1979 remake traded shadowplay for color, archetype for irony — and bled the story dry.
#HorrorCriticism #FilmEssay #WernerHerzog #Nosferatu #HorrorCinema
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@jprr.bsky.social

8 months ago

“Save Me”: Trauma, Vindication, and the Uncritical Gaze of May (2002) Lucky McKee’s May (2002) presents itself as a horror-tinged character study, but it ultimately delivers neither psychological clarity nor moral insight. Instead, it flirts with empathy before withd…

Angela Bettis plays a woman unraveling in May (2002), a film that poses as a character study but dodges psychological truth in favor of blood-soaked fantasy.
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