The Craft is the dark underside of the 90’s Clueless hype. It’s edgy supernatural teens before Twilight came along and made everyone expressionless, bloodless, and glittery. It’s Mean Girls with tarot cards. It’s the grit of real anxieties paired with the fantasy of unlimited power. It’s leather and lipstick and bad girl shit. Get in loser, we’re going to call the corners.
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Cronenberg has said that Possessor focuses on Vos’ relationship with violence, and the way she experiences and processes it. Taking that idea and merging it with comments he makes in the same interview about the pandemic - Vos’ relationship with violence isn’t monogamous. We all have a relationship with violence. Efficiency and consumption make violence a fact of our lives.
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Night Teeth is yet another entry in the long history of sexy vampire fiction. Since Carmilla in 1872, audiences have been seduced by the moral ambiguity of sexual attraction’s role in society and its ties with danger and death. We haven’t made up our minds if we want to fight vampires or fuck them and Night Teeth is just another example of that indecision.
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Raw is one of those films that often makes it onto Top Ten Best Body Horror lists. It’s got elements of everything a horror snob could love; it’s French, it’s well-shot, it stars two women who give fantastic performances as sisters, and the slower pacing combined up-front gore leave you wondering wtf is going to happen next?
One thing Raw ISN’T is a Coming of Age movie.
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The Shape of Water is about a person who discovers their true self and strives to live that truth despite the pressure of society and its active, literal, persecution of their lifestyle.
See? Real quick.
The metaphor isn’t the problem. What was problematic, for me - at first - was the execution.
A short way to go about mainstreaming my initial complaint is to say: it wasn’t horny enough for me.
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