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Finals Week: 'The Final Girl: A few thoughts on Feminism and Horror'

21 December 2009 12:08 PM, PST | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

The Final Girl: A Few Thoughts on Feminism and Horror By Donato Totaro

One of the more important, if not groundbreaking, accounts/recuperations of the horror film from a feminist perspective is the 1993 Carol Clover's "Men, Women, and Chainsaws". One of the book's major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre, Clover points out that in most horror films, especially the slasher film, the audience, male and female, is structurally 'forced' to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway.) So while the narratively dominant killer's subjective point of view may be male within the narrative,the male viewer is still rooting for the Final Girl to overcome the killer. We can see this »

- Superheidi

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Gay Of The Dead 26: Big Bear Horror Film Fest Recap, Part 2

28 October 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Part 2 of the Big Bear Horror Film Festival recap. Read Part 1 here.

Saturday

After being up way too late the night before watching Golden Girls and Sex And The City reruns in my hotel room (P.S., I’m totally gay), it was time to get back to the Big Bear Horror Film Festival for a really great film, Die-ner (Get It?).

Yes, the “Get It?” is part of the film title, which I’m now publicly begging the filmmakers to change. Why? Because this film is so much smarter than the title. Die-ner (Get It?) is a well directed, well written and well acted serial-killer-plus-zombie flick that makes great use of its limited resources. I don’t want to give too much away, but I definitely recommend Patrick Horvath’s awesome motion picture.

As we walk out of the theater for a quick break, J.T. Seaton* and Michael Simon* join our gay horror cabal. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sean Abley)

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Greatest Scream Queens

1 September 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Debbie Rochon, often described as a scream queen herself, wrote in an article originally published in Gc Magazine that "a true Scream Queen isn't The Perfect Woman. She's sexy, seductive, but most importantly 'attainable' to the average guy. Or so it would seem." Nastassja Kinski Films: To the Devil a Daughter (1976) [1] Cat People (1982) [2] The Day the World Ended (2001) [3] Inland Empire (2006) [4] Kinski will always be remembered for the iconic photograph shot by Richard Avedon (with a snake coiled around her body) and her role in Paul Schrader's (not so good) remake of Cat People. Needless to say, it was a hit at the box office and Kinski deservingly received a Saturn Award for Best Actress. Caroline Munro Films: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) [5] Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) [6] Dracula A.D. 1972 [7] Maniac (1980) [8] Faceless (1987) [9] Demons 6 (1989) [10] Caroline Munro seduced audiences in her Hammer roles in films like Dracula A.D. 1972, but for gore hounds, »

- Ricky

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The Best Screams of the Maple Leaf

3 August 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Do you have a favorite Canadian horror movie?

Okay, this might sound like a strange question -- until you realize how many horror films were made north of the 42nd parallel. Now Canada is, by no means, a horror mecca, but Horror-Movies.ca's list of Top 30 Canadian Horror Movies (ranked by fan voting) reminds us that there are more than we might think.

More recent contributions include Bruce McDonald's Pontypool, the horror flick that Salon called an awesome "claustrophobic, locked-in-the-barn zombie movie." (That I'm actually planning to slip into the DVD player tonight!) Not to mention Prom Night, Ginger Snaps, Screamers, Cube, Silent Hill... And then, well, almost anything that's come from the hands of David Cronenberg pops up on the list -- Shivers, Scanners, Videodrome, and the film that helped make Christopher Walken a paragon of irresistible creepiness, The Dead Zone. Without that director, any horror list wouldn't be quite the same, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Cronenberg: A new look at Videodrome

23 May 2009 8:04 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

After taking a 30th Anniversary look at David Cronenberg's The Brood yesterday (read it here), Jack returns with a fresh look at Videodrome, a Fango favorite seen on the classic cover of Fangoria #25 (pictured below).

One of the things that make David Cronenberg a great writer/director is that no matter how whacked-out his premises are, they come from a place of uncomfortable truth.

The director known for pioneering the “body-horror” subgenre frequently constructs his visceral nightmares as allegories for all-to-human anxieties, from disease and decay to familial conflict and divorce.

When he made Videodrome, Cronenberg was in between his creative breakthrough and his commercial one. He had recently made The Brood, which, in addition to being his most mature and sophisticated horror effort to date, drew on personal pain of the director’s own divorce. It balanced expert technical direction, genuine emotion, and pure terror. A few years after Videodrome, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jack McDonald)

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David Cronenberg's The Brood Turns 30!

22 May 2009 10:39 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Can a lack of objectivity be a virtue? Art isn’t governed by the same rules as journalism, but the accepted wisdom is that the more adult a piece of art is, the less biased it is allowed to be. In “highbrow” cinema the assumption is that the subject or subjects should be presented in the clearest light possible.

But what about the visceral thrill of an artist letting go of his perspective and indulging emotion, holding a grudge, reveling in id? Thirty years ago, David Cronenberg made his best pure horror film and took the next great leap in his filmmaking with The Brood. The director openly acknowledged that the film was inspired by his acrimonious dissolution of his marriage, but even if he hadn’t, viewers would certainly have noticed that his vision of a divorce with a body count took a less than favorable stance on the sacred institution. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Jack McDonald)

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In Case You Missed It: A Crazies Cameo

15 April 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Sometimes it's easy to miss pretty cool nuggets of info in big reports like our set visit to The Crazies (read it here ) but a recent Twitter from the production made me think we should bring this bit of news into the spotlight. The Twitter update posted today reads: "We shot a cameo with one of the cast members from the original! Such a great scene. Top secret for now...more to come." Not necessarily top secret. During our visit to Georgia, director Breck Eisner informed us that original Crazies star Lynn Lowry was going to show her face in the remake. You can read our interview with him in its entirety here . In addition to Romero's The Crazies , Lowry has starred in I Drink Your Blood , David Cronenberg's Shivers and Cat People . »

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Cronenberg to Be Honored with France's Highest Award

20 March 2009 9:58 PM, PDT | ESplatter.com | See recent ESplatter news »

Former horror filmmaker David Cronenberg is due to be honored with the Legion d'honneur, France's highest award, next month. As reported in Variety today: Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has been selected to receive the Legion d'honneur, France's highest distinction. The ceremony will be held April 1 in Toronto, with consul general Jerome Cauchard to host. Cronenberg will be presented the Medal of Knight to the French National Order of the Legion of Honor. Francois Delattre, France's ambassador to Canada, will bestow the honor on behalf of French Republic president Nicolas Sarkozy. The award is meant to recognize Cronenberg's accomplishments and the services he rendered to French culture and to enhance the cultural relationship between France and Canada. Cronenberg's films have played well in France, where he has won numerous awards that include the 1996 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for "Crash." This isn't just France's highest award for a filmmaker -- but France's highest award, »

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Producer talks My Bloody Valentine sequel, etc.

4 February 2009 8:24 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

The latest in the revival of ’80s slasher favorites, Patrick Lussier’s My Bloody Valentine, came, saw and whipped up a 3-D storm at cinemas. Somewhat inevitably, of course, this means that a part two is on the cards.

“Originally, I wrote a sequel to the original movie and submitted it to Lionsgate as My Bloody Valentine Part II,” veteran producer John Dunning—who produced the original 1981 stalk ’n’ slash classic with Andre Link and Stephen Miller and receives an executive-producer credit on the redux—tells Fango. “They still have my script, but it relates only to the story of the first film and not the new one. So I’ll be talking to the studio soon about using a few of the elements of my follow-up and, by changing parts of the storyline, adapting it into something that follows the new version.”

Dunning, who ran the now-iconic Cinepix genre »

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2009 | 2008

9 articles from 2009

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