Tag: Body Horror
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There is a very specific brand of medical ethics in 1950s cinema that begins and ends with intravenous injections. When a young woman suffering from severe amnesia sits in a psychiatric ward, the doctors don’t bother with therapy, gentle questioning, or basic patient consent. They simply pull out a syringe filled with an experimental cocktail…
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There is something wonderfully strange about watching the opening credits of The Fly from 1958 and seeing Vincent Price sitting there behind David Hedison and Patricia Owens. Third billing. Vincent fucking Price. This is before Price became the Vincent Price we all know and love: the towering presence of gothic horror, the sinister voice, the…
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The Little Mermaid dissolving into sea foam, the Evil Queen dancing in a pair of red-hot shoes, and Sleeping Beauty being sexually assaulted and giving birth to twins—these original versions of our modern fairy tales were far from cheerful. In The Ugly Stepsister, Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt adds her dark twist to the story of…