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Strange Darling (Mollner 2023)
What a breath of fresh air! A film that is presented non-linearly for a reason! And a reason that doesn’t completely sabotage any horror that the film might have otherwise accomplished (looking at you 2019 Pet Sematary (Kolsch and Widmyer) remake). This all around just an excellent film. We don’t want to spoil anything for anyone, suffice it to say, if you like horror films you should see it.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Very minor spoilers for
Halloween (Carpenter 1979)
TOPIC INDEX – Strange Darling (Mollner 2023) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
2:45 – Film discussion begins
2:45 – wallpaper
8:00 – SPOILERS section begins
8:15 – defying subgenre and gender tropes
16:00 – structure and expectations
18:00 – depicting individuals in oppressed groups as villains
32:00 – emotional sense of the film
39:00 – subverted tropes
49:30 – subliminal frames
55:00 – ending
59:00 – position in the genre and the culture
1:02:00 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
1:13:00 – Laura’s short is an award winning film!!!
1:16:00 – follow up on Caroline Forgeat and Revenge
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“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”
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