Welcome to Dressing For Dread, a style analysis focusing on key characters in horror films. Somewhere between THE CRAFT and JENNIFER'S BODY lies GINGER SNAPS, the angstiest werewolf film ever made. Karen Walton and John Fawcett's story effectively compares the onset of menstruation to transforming into a werewolf during a full moon. The tone is …
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Welcome to Dressing For Dread, a style analysis focusing on key characters in horror films. An unsung hero in George A. Romero's filmography, SEASON OF THE WITCH (originally released as HUNGRY WIVES,) is a bit less of a traditional horror film than audiences might have liked. Billed as a sleazy, softcore suburban housewife-gone-bored story, the …
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Welcome to Dressing For Dread, a style analysis focusing on key characters in horror films. We all know Maxine Minx wants the good life. We know the hardships and nightmares she survived in X to get where she is now in MAXXXINE. Even though she's in sunny Los Angeles, her world is still bleak and …
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Welcome to Dressing For Dread, a style analysis focusing on key characters in horror films. Every few years, it seems a filmmaker is contractually obligated to make a horror film revolving around a writer. In 2012, the task was assigned to Scott Derrickson, who gave us a fantastically creepy view into a true crime writer's …
Welcome to Dressing For Dread, a style analysis focusing on key characters in horror films. Clive Barker's HELLRAISER needs virtually no introduction. But for the sake of this post, lets shift the focus away from the iconic BDSM-inspired costumes of the Cenobites towards the film's most endearing human villain. Dashing antagonist Julia Cotton (Clare Higgins) …
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