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Win 'Bitch Slap' signed posters!
21 December 2009 1:12 PM, PST
Would you like to win a fucking neat Bitch Slap poster, from the awesome movie out on Jan 8th, 2010?! Featuring bitchin’ graphics and signatures from Bitch Slapstars Julia Voth, America Olivo, Erin Cummings, Kevin Sorbo and Zoe Bell, this poster Bitch SLAPs the competition. Enter our contest right now to win: 1 full size movie poster, 1 signed mini-sheet poster (just the girls), one unsigned poster or the full Bitch Slap 11 card collectible set. And, its called Bitch Slap!
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Who needs to get bitch slapped the most?
1) Andy Dick
3) Me
Bitch Slap is a post-modern, thinking man’s throwback to the “B” Movie/Exploitation films of the 1950’s - 70’s as well as a loving, sly parody of the same. Inspired by the likes of Dragstrip Girl;, Faster Pussycat, …
- Superheidi
R.I.P. Brittany Murphy
21 December 2009 12:34 PM, PST
Actress Brittany Murphy died Sunday morning in Los Angeles, California of 'cardiac arrest', but no one is clear why. Most suspect drug abuse. The 32-year-old star of horror films like Dead Line, Something Wicked, and the low-budget Aslum disaster flick Megafault was found unconscious in the shower by her mother.
No one can deny that since her 1995 role as a cute brunette in the teen comedy Clueless, her appearance drastically changed to a stick-thin blond with a vacant stare...
"She seemed to go through a change on Clueless," Clueless director Amy Heckerling told And the Winner Is... on Sunday. "Maybe she felt like she was not the, like, skinny, pretty girl, you know? And then the next few movies she was, you know, thinner, blonde ... and going out with Ashton Kutcher suddenly got more into that whole glamorous scene. I think she felt the pressure to become a different sort …
- Superheidi
Finals Week: 'The Final Girl: A few thoughts on Feminism and Horror'
21 December 2009 12:08 PM, PST
The Final Girl: A Few Thoughts on Feminism and Horror By Donato Totaro
One of the more important, if not groundbreaking, accounts/recuperations of the horror film from a feminist perspective is the 1993 Carol Clover's "Men, Women, and Chainsaws". One of the book's major points concerns the structural positioning of what she calls the Final Girl in relation to spectatorship. While most theorists label the horror film as a male-driven/male-centered genre, Clover points out that in most horror films, especially the slasher film, the audience, male and female, is structurally 'forced' to identify with the resourceful young female (the Final Girl) who survives the serial attacker and usually ends the threat (until the sequel anyway.) So while the narratively dominant killer's subjective point of view may be male within the narrative,the male viewer is still rooting for the Final Girl to overcome the killer. We can see this …
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