A Problem Without a Solution: On Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’
“The body and the mind, and the horror therein, may be renewed through a metamorphosis of perception, as there is hope to be found in letting it, whatever it is, grow.”
More Than Shadows #2: On the Noir Legacy of Ida Lupino
“Ida Lupino may have thought of herself as a poor man’s Don Siegel as a director and Bette Davis as an actress, but I think that’s far from true.”
The Feminine Grotesque #10: Genre Is a Woman and She Has Fangs – On ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’
“After viewing ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ for the first time, I wondered, ‘Doesn’t a woman have to be at least a little bit monstrous to survive?'”
More Than Shadows #1: Series Introduction
“There will be unrequited love and monstrous desires amongst these essays.”
The Feminine Grotesque #9: Learning How to Live – On ‘Eve’s Bayou’
“‘Eve’s Bayou’ is like a living poem, deftly exploring the way memory can both comfort and haunt us, long after the actual wounds of our tragedies heal.”
The Feminine Grotesque #8: Kingdom of Rot – On ‘Queen of Earth’
A Series by Angelica Jade Bastién
The Feminine Grotesque #7: She’s a Loaded Gun – On ‘The Last Seduction’
“As Bridget Gregory in ‘The Last Seduction,’ Linda Fiorentino is like the shock of hearing a gunshot in the dead of night. She embodies, more than any other character, the ethos of the modern femme fatale.”
The Feminine Grotesque #6: Neon Nightmare – On ‘Jawbreaker’
A Series by Angelica Jade Bastién
The Feminine Grotesque #5: Lilith’s Heir – On ‘The Strange Love of Martha Ivers’
A Series by Angelica Jade Bastién
The Feminine Grotesque #4: Madness, Thy Name Is Eve
A Series by Angelica Jade Bastién
The Feminine Grotesque #3: Something Wicked – On Robert Eggers’ ‘The Witch’
A Series by Angelica Jade Bastién
The Feminine Grotesque #2: Mirror, Mirror – On Bette Davis in ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’
A Series by Angelica Jade Bastién
The Feminine Grotesque #1: A Unified Theory on Female Madness in Cinema and American Culture
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