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MaXXXine (West 2024)
Creating a successful horror trilogy that isn’t full of toxic messaging (looking at you James Wan) has proven to be a historical rarity. The original Scream trilogy is Marshall’s gold standard for a progressive, innovative, cohesive, beautifully executed trilogy. While leaving the possibility of a sequel open has been standard practice since horror films started really making money in the 1970s, prior to Craven’s Scream few films were conceived of with the intention of creating a cohesive work. The Human Centipede is probably the most infamous and least successful. It started as a shock film, the second film went meta and while scatological actually had glimmers of potential. Rather than complete the sequence in any sort of interesting way, the third film devolved into boorish slobbish rubbish. With Creep 2, the Creep trilogy has potential as well, but we may never see the third film to be able to decide. Long story long, West has managed to create an excellent and trilogy of films that are entertaining, well constructed, and intellectually compelling. Altogehter we’ve spent almost as long discussing these films as the films themselves, and there is still lots more worth discussion.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
MaXXXine (West 2024)
Pearl (West 2022)
X (West 2022)
Carrie (Demme 1974)
Jakob’s Wife (Stevens 2021)
TOPIC INDEX – MaXXXine (West 2024) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
2:00 – Film discussion begins
2:00 – overall impressions without spoilers
6:00 – thriller vs horror genres
6:00 – spoilers discussion begins
6:00 – serial killers
8:00 – empathy vs villainy
9:00 – gender, agency, alliance
12:00 – structure vs agency
25:00 – sex work
35:00 – hegemonic beauty
42:38 – Horror Noire (Burgin 2019)
50:30 – pastor
58:00 – the ending
1:10:00 – her agent, Teddy
1:21:30 – correction: Scarface rather than Goodfellas (but probably both)
1:23:30 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
1:24:30 – trilogies
1:26:30 – The Night Stalkerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez
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