Baddie – Talking. Lesson – Seriously, shut up. After weeks of a time-related hiatus, Scifridays is back! Okay, technically I came back last week with my brand new column Thrillhers, where I’ll be taking a look at female-directed/written horror movies, something I’ve been wanting to explore further for a while now. But not this week, no,…
Thrillhers is a column that takes a look at female directors in horror and how their movies are shaped by the socio-cultural implications of being female. Greetings, Rooster Illusion fans! Sarah from SciFridays here, back from hiatus and proud to introduce: Thrillhers, a brand new column! To kick things off, let’s take a look at Ana Lily Amirpour’s A…
Baddie – Greedy sequels. Lesson – Excess is the plague of the human condition. Check out the first three movies here – join me in my own suffering. As I plunged headlong into the fourth Saw movie, I had an awakening. An epiphany – a revelation. Saw has re-invented story telling. It happened by accident,…
Baddie – James Wan. Lesson – Not all Australian horror is good. Readers, you don’t know this about me yet – but I am not a James Wan fan. It would be foolish to say he didn’t understand the genre, but I feel that ultimately his films are a collection of successful horror gimmicks that do…
Baddie – Misleading titles. Lesson – Vacations are dangerous I guess? Well, in a vain attempt to be a little more legitimate, I haven’t reviewed a shark movie in a long time. There’s also been kind of a lack of shark movies in general, which is kind of a shame. Then Psycho Shark swam along into my…
Baddie – Marital trust. Lesson – Marriage is inherently dangerous. Maybe. Honeymoon accomplishes a rare thing and makes me immediately hate the couple in question. It might be because their love story starts with, “lol foreign food gives you food poisoning,” or because they have cinnamon rolls instead of cake at their wedding, or because Bea…
Baddie – Underutilized myths. Lesson – Sometimes the mermaid isn’t the problem. Sometimes it’s the guy behind you holding a grappling hook. Despite the opening music sounding like someone applied the charming sounds of glass bowls over the original Jaws soundtrack, I am optimistic about Killer Mermaid (also called Nymph and originally Mamula). This is my first Serbian horror movie,…
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