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Obscure words by serial killers11/28/2023 Fox's Jennifer and Amanda Seyfried's nervous Needy have been mates since forever – but then it turns out Jennifer's taken part in a Satanic ritual gone wrong. But if Diablo Cody's film looked in 2009 like an exploitative slasher which used Fox's body to sell itself, now feels, with distance, more like a deeply subversive pulling apart of exactly that impulse. "And I was like, no! This is a movie for girls too! That audience, they did not attempt to reach." It was to no avail. Considered a schlocky Megan Fox vehicle when it was first released, Jennifer's Body has had a total reappraisal as a feminist cult classic.Ĭody fought executives who wanted to play up the Fox angle to get teen lads in. Yes, it's about a succubus who pukes weird black bile everywhere rather than yer Bundys and yer Zodiacs, but given that Nightmare on Elm Street's about a killer who only exists in the realm of dreams we're going to run with it. No detective picks up a bit of paper with Mad Murder Guy scribbles on it and declares that it's like the killer's playing a game with them. It's not your average nuts and bolts procedural. "David Cronenberg reckons he's the body horror and automotive erotica don, does he?" Ducournau seems to be saying. After surviving a car crash as a little girl, Alexia has a metal plate in her head.Īs she grows up, it turns out – and this is a very crude summation – that she has a sexual connection with cars and heads out on a bit of a murder spree. That one was about a hazing ritual which turned into a frenzy of cannibalism Titane revs up the body horror even further while dropping the gore factor. Julia Ducournau's Raw from 2016 was one of the most viscerally (and that's the only word for it) shocking and thrilling feature debuts of the last decade. He drifted away to Paris after Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels offered him the biggest job in German cinema M stands as a portrait of a country about to lose its innocence. It was the last to be released in his homeland too. There's an economy and poetry to M – see the opening sequence in which young Elsie is lured away by Beckert with a balloon – which perhaps explains why it was Lang's favourite of his own films. He set a trend among movie serial killers to follow too, in questioning the moral authority of the people sitting in judgement on him. Peter Lorre's breakout role as killer Hans Beckert used his soft, sad eyes to make him an especially unsettling bad guy. Fritz Lang's first talkie was also one of the first procedural police dramas, but it came with a couple of twists: it's not just the police on the tail of the killer, but the criminal underclass too and we know exactly who the murderer is from the very beginning. In Weimar era Berlin, there's a child-killer stalking the streets.
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