scream queen

"Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen." (Kier-La Janisse, 'House of Psychotic Women')

Out of all types of horror films, I most love those depicting 1. Women losing their minds, and 2. Girls turning into monsters.

As a woman (especially as a gay woman) who often feels she is losing her shit while the world slips further into insanity with people talking about bitcoin as the earth literally burns, I take comfort in films that allow women's destructive emotions out to play. It's nice to know other women are silently wondering "...am I the psychotic one, or...?"

And I have always loved how the girlhood-to-monstress trope explains that girls will become the monster that the world makes them out to be.

"In a culture where we're trained to protect children and loathe women, the border zone [of puberty] is the subject of intense superstition and terror... Every woman is a girl who fell from grace, a monster who once was human. Puberty marks the point where girls stop being people and start being women." (Sady Doyle, 'Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers')

Recent posts are in the sidebar to the right, but here are my movie reviews which are not exactly pure reviews, rather a mix of review, reactions, and ramblings.