Tag: Barbara Crampton
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How the hell does anyone talk about a Mickey Reece film? The first film I saw from the director was Climate of the Hunter, which I caught during a film festival back in 2020. The film, about two aging women becoming increasingly cruel toward one another as they attempt to impress a man who might…
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Well, that’s a wrap on the 25th annual Boston Underground Film Festival. This year was packed with weird, wild, and wonderful shorts and a diverse offering spanning genres and decades. From the Cage-rage Australian coasts to battles across time, the programmers of BUFF 25 packed a punch with this year’s festival. Thematically on point and…
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How far would a mother go to save her children? Horror movies have been asking and answering that question for decades, but none have done it quite like Little Bites. Most films use the tried-and-true trope of a woman who turns into a monster to keep her kids safe and/or healthy (or just alive!), but…
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The success of Halloween in 1978 and Jamie Lee Curtis’s performance therein, coming near the end of a decade of new ground broken in the themes, content, and storytelling approaches in horror (and film in general), marked the beginning of a surge in the popularity of scream queens and a concomitant change in the portrayal…