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# You Remind Me of the Frame

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- [“I’m Just Drawn That Way”: Live Worlds and Drawn People in Betty Boop and Roger Rabbit](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/05/im-just-drawn-that-way-live-worlds-and-drawn-people-in-betty-boop-and-roger-rabbit/) - Introduction for May I have always been entranced with an animator’s ability to create entire environments with only a computer and sketchbook. I am fairly certain they hold some incredible magic, given their ability to turn a drawing into something feasible and living. Perhaps the term magic dismisses the skill that it takes to be
- [“Can You Guess What Every Woman’s Worst Nightmare Is?”: Listening to Cassandra in Promising Young Woman (2020)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/04/can-you-guess-what-every-womans-worst-nightmare-is-listening-to-cassandra-in-promising-young-woman-2020/) - CW (Content Warning): Rape, Abuse, Violence, and Pedophilia are all featured in Promising Young Woman and discussed here. Reader discretion advised. The first thing we hear in Promising Young Woman is the lyric, “I was busy thinking about boys”. A boppy pop song, candy flavoured. We then open on a rather gross shot of
- [“An Attack on My Divinity!”: Divine Filth in Pink Flamingos (1972)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/01/an-attack-on-my-divinity-divine-filth-in-pink-flamingos-1972/) - CW Content Warning: Overtly Disturbing Content This film is the definition is X/NC-17 Rated. I mention several of its disturbing scenes in my analysis. Reader discretion advised Our culture loves to be disgusted. We seek out grotesque things and bodies just to be shocked and alarmed. I don’t think there is a specific reason for
- [“It’s a Small World, Spiritually Speaking”: Music and Myth in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/its-a-small-world-spiritually-speaking-an-exploration-of-christianity-music-and-myth-in-o-brother-where-art-thou-2000/) - "O Muse! Sing in me, and through me tell the story" Updated November 29th, 2022 O Brother Where Art Thou is a clever adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, one which skillfully alters and modernizes the Greek epic. These changes remove the perceived 'educational high ground' associated with Homer’s work, allowing the film to comment on both
- ["She Had to Eat Rabbit, Raw and Bloody": Us (2019) and Wonderland](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/she-had-to-eat-rabbit-raw-and-bloody-us-2019-and-the-world-of-wonderland/) - Updated July 31, 2022 During the final confrontation between Red and Adelaide in the film Us, Red notes, “And to think, if it weren’t for you, I never would have danced at all”. In doing so, she frames their ensuing fight to the death as a complex ballet, but additionally frames their relationship as a
- [Where are These "Golden Years"?: History as Music in A Knight's Tale (2001)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/where-are-these-golden-years-history-as-music-in-knights-tale-2001/) - One of my favourite uses of intertextuality is when a film uses music to overlap history with contemporary culture. There are certainly those who would disagree with this approach, mainly from the standpoint that it is inaccurate, and that only period appropriate music should appear in a historic film. While I appreciate this position, I
- [Coraline and the Vivisected Doll](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/coraline-and-the-vivisected-doll/) - Coraline was the first horror film I was ever encouraged to watch. My godmother took me to an early release of the film, knowing how much of an impact it would have in my life. Although I got scared a lot as a kid, even screaming on escalators, horror films were one of the ways
- [Possession, Privilege, and the Racial Politics of Beetlejuice (1988)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/possession-privilege-and-the-racial-politics-of-beetlejuice-1988/) - “This is my art, and it is dangerous” I remember the first time I saw the iconic “Banana Boat Song (Day O)” scene in Beetlejuice. I was terrified of the shrimp hand, and to this day, I can’t stand the idea of eating shrimp, let alone a shrimp cocktail. You never know when it might
- ["Our Lady of the Upside Down": Persephone's Rebirth in Hadestown (2019)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/our-lady-of-the-upside-down-persephones-rebirth-in-hadestown-2019/) - Part III of III Hadestown makes old material insistent and relevant while suggesting that act of storytelling is a way to examine contemporary trauma and create voices in places which were once suppressed. By turning back, as the musical and its characters do, perhaps we can see things we did not before. In retelling the
- [The Anywhere City: Why Vancouver is Never Vancouver](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/05/the-anywhere-city-why-vancouver-is-never-vancouver/) - Vancouver never plays itself. You hear that phrase a lot when you live in the Lower Mainland, an unofficial stretch of land in BC which reaches from Hope to the edge of the US border. We are also called Hollywood North, or Hollywood of the North, as we hold some of the largest production facilities
- ["Witch, Witch, You’re a Witch!”: Generational Curses in Practical Magic (1998)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/10/witch-witch-youre-a-witch-generational-curses-in-practical-magic-1998/) - A woman stands at the gallows overlooking a crowd of jealous women and weak men. The noose is already over her neck, her hands tied behind. She takes a deep breath, just as the music swells, and puts her foot over the edge. The crowd gasps as she jumps from the stand and falls to
- [“What a Crazy Random Happenstance!”: The Ironic Legacy of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (2008)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/03/what-a-crazy-random-happenstance-the-ironic-legacy-of-dr-horribles-sing-along-blog-2008/) - Superheroes use costumes to define themselves, so do villains. All that silly latex and metal is there for a reason, it’s not just to be a shield. Costumes are crucial a marketing tool, both for the character and creator. Most heroes become a symbol for some broad political or moral issue. Batman, for instance, is
- [“If You're Looking for Fun!”: Arcane, Cuphead, and the World of Video Game Adaptations](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/02/if-youre-looking-for-fun-arcane-cuphead-and-the-world-of-video-game-adaptations/) - I was afraid of playing video games as a kid. I liked their puzzles, I liked their stories, I didn’t like dying. I remember the first time I did, how the controller started twisting in my hand with this terrible buzzing sound, like what I did in the game had some real-world consequence. But I
- [Spectacular Googly Vision in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/04/spectacular-googly-vision-in-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022/) - Embracing Silly Chaos Spoilers Ahead! If Victor Frankenstein found googly eyes he never would have needed a corpse. These funny little dots allow you to animate objects, make your environment less intimidating. It doesn’t matter what you put googly eyes onto, it’s always going to look goofy. They bounce around with just the slightest bump,
- [“Release the Kraken!”: Stop Motion Mythology in Clash of the Titans (1981)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/04/release-the-kraken-stop-motion-mythology-in-clash-of-the-titans-1981/) - The Ancient Greeks believed that the Titan Prometheus fashioned the first humans out of heavy mud and clay. Ray Harryhausen did much the same when he brought his own mythic monsters to life in Clash of the Titans (1981) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). You might say that humanity itself is some convoluted form
- [Arachne’s Thread: Political Embroidery in Modern Cinema](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/03/arachnes-thread-political-embroidery-in-modern-cinema/) - The opening to Disney’s Encanto (2021) includes a shot of Mirabel pulling a stray piece of thread off her skirt. It’s a tiny detail, but I can’t stop thinking about it. There are several articles about Mirabel’s outfit online, particularly about her skirt, which she hand embroidered with different symbols to represent her family. Weights
- [How to Reference "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/03/how-to-reference-diamonds-are-a-girls-best-friend/) - Why Marilyn Monroe's famous pink dress remains a relevant symbol. I once saw Marilyn Monroe find a missing child. I was at the Universal Studios theme park, coming down a long escalator, and I saw Monroe sitting below on a director’s chair, smiling and taking photos with fans. She was wearing that famous white dress
- [The Sparrow and the Gentleman: Identity in Modern Pirate Media](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/03/the-sparrow-and-the-gentleman-identity-in-modern-pirate-media/) - Pirates of the Caribbean and Our Flag Means Death Dead Men Tell No Tales I grew up in a small seaside town, one which had a local Captain Jack Sparrow. He would arrive, unprompted, to random events in full Sparrow regalia and he never broke character. It didn’t really matter what the event was, Sparrow
- [Part Lab, Part Therapy: The World of Horror Cinema](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2023/04/part-lab-part-therapy-the-world-of-horror-cinema/) - “To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.” Del Toro, Guillermo and Mark Zicree. Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions. 2013, pg. 66. Sometimes attributed to Shirley Jackson I’ve always found you can tell more of a society
- [What These Horrors Want: Infectious Thought in The Innocents (1961)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2023/02/what-horror-wants-infectious-thought-in-the-innocents-1961/) - “We must try to learn what it is these horrors want.” CW (CONTENT WARNING): This film indirectly deals with Child Abuse and Domestic Violence, both of which are discussed here. While the law argues that someone is innocent until proven guilty, certain Christian faiths suggest the opposite. One is guilty until they have been baptised,
- [“Beyond Everything”: Storytelling and Pathogenic Possession in The Turn of the Screw (1898)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2023/01/beyond-everything-storytelling-and-pathogenic-possession-in-the-turn-of-the-screw-1898/) - Introduction to pathogenic media and adaptation unit Stories pass from one speaker to the next, possessing each figure momentarily before entering another. This creates an exponential relationship, one where listeners innately transform into storytellers and continue to spread the narrative. Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw visualizes this exchange by implying that the
- [I’m Still Hungry: Taste and Eating in The Menu (2022)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2023/01/im-still-hungry-taste-and-eating-in-the-menu-2022/) - Chaos ensues at a high-end restaurant after it’s announced there will be no bread. While director Mark Mylod’s The Menu is a satire, that sentence certainly feels true. Bread, and lack thereof, has incited whole revolutions, but almost exclusively for the poor. The Menu inverses this disparity as part of its class commentary, taking something
- [Holiday Break Until January 10th](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/12/holiday-break-until-january-10th/) - Happy Holiday's everyone! I am on break until January 10th, but will return with new articles! If you are looking for some Christmas content, be sure to check out articles like "Rotting Chivalry in The Green Knight (2021)", which discusses Christmas, Camelot, and Chivalry. Or check out our Yuletide film collection.
- [“The Borrowed Soul”: Frankenstein and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/12/the-borrowed-soul-frankenstein-and-guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-2022/) - Spoilers Ahead Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio likens Geppetto to Victor Frankenstein with a single exception: one remains, the other abandons. Each reanimates; they imbue life into something that had a life but was stripped of it. Victor a body, Geppetto a tree. Notably, Victor collects parts from different bodies, yet never kills any of those
- [New Post Coming November 22](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/11/new-post-coming-november-22/) - Plus a Special Update
- [The Irish Goodbye in The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/11/the-irish-goodbye-in-the-banshees-of-inisherin-2022/) - Endings are a selfish concept. Just because you have ended doesn’t mean it ends. As a favourite Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink quote of mine goes: “Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you”, and that assumption is crucial. Decay, growth, life, death. More like a violent dryer heating and
- ["Ain't That Just the Way": My Incomplete Halloween Movie List](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/10/aint-that-just-the-way-my-incomplete-halloween-movie-list/) - I fail every holiday. No matter the season, I never finish my checklist. That list of things a person should do to actually experience the holiday. The decorations you laboriously scour a storage unit for, the baked good you romanticize year-round, forgetting the dishes, flour, and sweat involved, and the movies. The films I charge
- [New Post Coming October 25th](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/10/new-post-coming-october-25th/) - I am teaching a workshop this weekend, so no article this week. Next upload will be on October 25th. In the meantime... Check out some of my older articles, like this one I did on "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" or this early piece I did on "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride".
- [Whatever Happened to Pearl?: The Role of Hag Cinema](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/10/whatever-happened-to-pearl-the-role-of-hag-cinema/) - “You mean, all this time, we could have been friends?” Hollywood is terrified of old women. They are traditionally a site of great horror to studio executives and cinemas alike. As though every female love interest is born with a terrible curse, so terrible that the film must end before they succumb to it. That’s
- [To Screen or Not To Screen? Controversial Cinema and the Debate on Historic Relevance](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/09/to-screen-or-not-to-screen-controversial-cinema-and-the-debate-on-historic-relevance/) - CW (CONTENT WARNING): Rape I originally planned on writing about something cheerful and spooky this week. Local news headlines made other plans. I’m not sure if they’ve registered internationally, but it’s everywhere here. A certain well-known and beloved movie theatre screened a controversial film called Deep Throat (1972). The issue here has nothing to do
- [New Article Coming Sep 20th](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/09/new-article-coming-sep-20th/) - Plus a Special Update!
- [The Absent Bride: Fear and Loathing in The Invitation (2022)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/08/the-absent-bride-fear-and-loathing-in-the-invitation-2022/) - Or why The Invitation's unwarranted poor reviews reflect a history of dismissal. The Invitation was originally titled The Bride, reminiscent of Dracula and Frankenstein’s Brides. Dracula’s Brides, in particular, have a long-standing tradition in vampire media. Even vampire women in non-Dracula projects are routinely referred to as a Bride of Dracula. Often, male vampires are
- [New Schedule - Monday/Tuesday](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/08/new-schedule-monday-tuesday/) - Starting this week, articles will be released between Mondays and Tuesdays instead of weekends! This means my next article will be posted between August 29th and 30th. Thank you for your patience and support, be sure to follow us on Instagram (@youremindmeoftheframe) for updates and weekly summary posts!
- [The Absent Groom: Vampirism in The Brides of Dracula (1960)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/08/the-absent-groom-vampirism-in-the-brides-of-dracula-1960/) - The female vampires featured in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) never kill adults. Their power is carefully mediated throughout the text, a tradition which continues in contemporary vampire cinema. It’s as though Stoker’s text is afraid of Dracula’s Brides, as Victor Frankenstein feared the Bride of Frankenstein. Each fear the power they could potentially hold, both
- [“What’s a Bad Miracle?”: Nope (2022) and Mirrored Spectacle](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/08/whats-a-bad-miracle-nope-2022-and-mirrored-spectacle/) - Spoilers Ahead! The playground at my elementary school came with one rule: ‘If you can’t see me, I can’t see you’. The afterschool care instructor used to shout it to us as we ran off into the trees, and she’d repeat it angrily if we wandered too far. I found it comforting, especially in tense
- [“What a Classic Thor Adventure!”: 'Realism' in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) and The Norseman (2022)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/07/what-a-classic-thor-adventure-realism-in-thor-love-and-thunder-2022-and-the-norseman-2022/) - Life is not realistic. No person has ever stood up, looked around, and thought, “this is all just so realistic”. It’s a term reserved to describing depictions of life, how believable they feel to the character or world, and more importantly, to the viewer. But any viewer will know that life is rarely governed by
- [“Come and Dream With Me”: Magic Science With George Méliès](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/07/come-and-dream-with-me-magic-science-with-george-melies/) - *Author’s Note:There’s very little verified documentation of George Méliès’ own words. All quotes listed, with one noted exception, are from Martin Scorsese’ 2011 Hugo, a loose biopic on Méliès. Planetariums make for awkward movie theatres. I used to be terrified of them, but I was terrified of a lot, so that was on brand. Something
- [New Article Coming July 10th](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/06/new-article-coming-july-10th/) - I am off on holiday for the two weeks, but will be back with a fresh article on the 10th. In the meantime, here are a few of my favourite older posts! “Kill the Brain”: Partial Information and the Partially Devoured in Night of the Living Dead (1968) “I’m the One They Should Be Scared
- ["I Am That Horror": The Vacant Spotlight in The Red Shoes (1948)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/06/i-am-that-horror-the-vacant-spotlight-in-the-red-shoes-1948/) - The Red Shoes ends with the tragic death of a ballerina, but the ballet goes on without her. More specifically, her shoes go on without her. We see a man waiting outside a green door on the stage. He pauses, so does the music, just as the door swings open. There is no one in
- [Two Years at You Remind Me of the Frame](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/06/two-years-at-you-remind-me-of-the-frame/) - You Remind Me of the Frame began around the same time I received my degree in the mail. We were passing the third month of Covid restrictions, and I found myself home alone with zero purpose. I had just finished writing a lengthy thesis, and tidied my TA position, but that left me with no
- [Rotting Chivalry in The Green Knight (2021)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/05/rotting-chivalry-in-the-green-knight-2021/) - "Green is what is left." The first time I encountered Sir Gawain was in a children’s puzzle book, which worked like a Where’s Waldo? except you had to find things like eggs, swords, and severed heads. Things every child enjoys looking for apparently. I had a whole collection of Usborne Fantasy Adventure books, but King
- [Arthurian Cinema and the Dream of Camelot](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/05/arthurian-cinema-and-the-dream-of-camelot/) - I believed in Camelot growing up; I believed pretty much anything I saw in movies. I had trouble distinguishing fiction from non-fiction, I still get the terms mixed up. So, when I saw Dragonheart (1996) at around 4, I took it very seriously. I even memorized the Old Code Bowen recites throughout the film; the
- [“For You are Everywhere”: What is Love at the Movies?](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/02/for-you-are-everywhere-what-is-love-at-the-movies/) - Film genres are usually named after an emotion, or the experience of one. A horror film brings horror. A fantasy film brings fantasy or wonder. Love is hard to define, let alone see, so romance films are a tad more complicated. It’s easy to tell if a character is horrified, screaming is a dead giveaway,
- [The Period in Autumn de Wilde’s Emma. (2020)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/02/the-period-in-autumn-de-wildes-emma-2020/) - Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation of Emma ends with a period. I mean the title is Emma., full stop. It’s not just a period film, the title comes with a period. I found this discovery strangely disturbing, as did my TV. I came across the film while channel surfing recently, and the punctuation mark confused my
- [Reading Film: Seeing the Mark in Nightmare Alley (2021)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/01/reading-film-finding-the-mark-in-nightmare-alley-2021/) - What is Close Reading? Nightmare Alley poses the question: when should you stop reading? It focuses on a man who cannot stop manipulating people’s deepest need, going beyond just entertaining them and descending to a far more intense and lucrative game. This ‘game’ is framed as a type of reading, a close read if you
- [Life Inside the Frame: How to Define Male Gaze](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2022/01/life-inside-the-frame-how-to-define-male-gaze/) - I got a strange message the other day. It was referring to my post about Jennifer’s Body, where I wrote that “I am tired of listening to boys tell me what Jennifer’s Body is about, and whether they liked it or not”. They were confused by my use of the term ‘boys’, which related to
- [Telling Sound: What Makes Music in Film (Part III)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/12/telling-sound-what-makes-music-in-film-part-iii/) - Music is like breathing in a film, it gives life, but it also acts as a kind of metronome for the story. An orchestral score can ultimately decide whether a scene works or not. They are designed for the film, but also designed for whatever emotion or style that film hopes to convey. It’s why
- [Non-Diegetic Sound: What Makes Music in Film (Part II)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/11/non-diegetic-sound-what-makes-music-in-film-part-ii/) - Non-diegetic music exists between a film and its audience. The audience can hear it, but the characters cannot, even though it defines much of their environment. I tend to visualize non-diegetic material as a layer on top of the story, in that it exists in this strange mid-plane which is technically separate from both the
- [Unsettling the Score: What Makes Music in Film (Part I)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/11/unsettling-the-score-what-makes-music-in-film-part-i/) - Movies can redefine a song without ever changing the tune. They can change the way we listen; they can even imbed themselves into the legacy of a song or artist. There was a song on the radio yesterday, for instance, and the only reason I knew it was because I had seen it in a
- [“No Finer Place for Sure”: Looking Beyond the Spotlight in Last Night in Soho (2021)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/11/no-finer-place-for-sure-looking-beyond-the-spotlight-in-last-night-in-soho-2021/) - Spoilers ahead You can only see what is directly in front of you when you're under a spotlight, only what is on stage, but someone across the room, sitting in the audience, can see you. There is a disparity in that, but also isolation. Cut off, blind, performing to a person you cannot distinguish. There
- [The Outstretched Hand in the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/09/the-outstretched-hand-in-the-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954/) - Kay stands alone at the bottom of the ocean. We see her surrounded by fish and she examines each thoughtfully. She is perfectly at ease in this other world, still in her dry clothes, entirely focused. She smiles broadly as the camera pans back to reveal that she is actually on the other side of
- ["The Blood is the Life": Blank Space in Dracula (1931)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/09/the-blood-is-the-life-blank-space-in-dracula-1931/) - Horror films are like vampires, they feed off their audience. They pierce and draw blood in more than one sense. You feel that sudden orchestral slam, the kind that rocks you back into your seat, clutching your chest. It’s carefully choreographed so your heart rate mirrors the victim. You become afraid of something that cannot
- [Pathogenic Sight in 1933 and 2020's The Invisible Man](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/09/pathogenic-sight-in-1933-and-2020s-the-invisible-man/) - CW (Content Warning): Domestic Abuse You stand in a dim kitchen, your back to the counter, your hand on the knife rack. There is no sound, no movement, other than your own. And you are on your own right? A creak from the dining room. You peek, but there just some dirty dishes. Another creak.
- [Gods and Monsters: An Introduction to the Universal Horror Collection](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/09/gods-and-monsters-an-introduction-to-the-universal-horror-collection/) - “An audience needs something stronger than a pretty little love story. So why shouldn't I write of monsters?” – Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Visiting Spirit Halloween at the beginning of September feels like arriving for a funeral only to discover that the person has recovered. Sure, you're relieved, happy even, but also confused, and still
- ["Do You Feel Held?": How Midsommar (2019) Carves its Grief](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/08/do-you-feel-held-how-midsommar-2019-carves-its-grief/) - People in the fictional Hårga commune carve runes and tuck them under their pillows so they can dream and manifest what they have written. Words have power, but more importantly, the act of writing or carving gives that word power. The choice to represent something is thus as potent as the representation itself. The word
- ["Begin at the Beginning": Alice in Cottagecore Land](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/08/begin-at-the-beginning-alice-in-cottagecore-land/) - Searching cottagecore online is like falling down a rabbit hole. You see endless pictures of flowers, dresses, and baked goods until they eventually blur into one aesthetic. Most of the pictures are just that, pictures. They are a version of reality which has undergone extensive editing and prop work. It is a Wonderland, in that
- [Living in a Fenced Garden: The Practicality of Cottagecore Cinema](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/08/living-in-a-fenced-garden-the-practicality-of-cottagecore-cinema/) - Introduction for August You see a cottage covered with wisteria, its vines hover in the wind. The petals twist into a little tornado that passes through the garden and stops by an old elm. The house has a thatched roof, with a long brick chimney that creeks when it settles. Inside, you gingerly arrange the
- [Nostalgia as Horror in the 2012 Dark Shadows Film](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/07/nostalgia-as-horror-in-the-2012-dark-shadows-film/) - We see a shadowy figure gliding down a dusty hallway. He weaves a candlestick through the cobwebs, passing a clouded mirror. It only reflects the candle. Suddenly, a new light emerges by the window. An iridescent woman hovers, twitching horribly, in the bloody nightgown she died in. Her mouth slides open, screaming without sound. These
- [“Not Just Pretty Words”: Rejected Value in The Addams Family Movies](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/07/not-just-pretty-words-rejected-value-in-the-addams-family-movies/) - Kids love opposite day. I used to declare opposite days several times a week. If my parents said “no” to something, I would jokingly reply, “but it’s opposite day, so we’re going to”. Or, if they wanted to do something I didn’t, I would say, “on opposite day we don’t”. I never believed this would
- [Broadcasting Horror: The Domestic TV Monster of the 1960's](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/07/broadcasting-horror-the-domestic-tv-monster-in-the-1960s/) - When The Addams, The Munsters, and Dark Shadows Crept In Introduction for July Horror films contain their creatures; they hold them in the film rather than extending them. The monster exists in that 2-hour span, maybe 4 if they get a sequel. Horror anthologies, by contrast, elongate their horror, they draw it out of the
- [Unnatural Talent: Christine's Mask in the 1990 Phantom of the Opera Miniseries](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/06/unnatural-talent-christines-mask-in-the-1990-phantom-of-the-opera-miniseries/) - “She was unprepared for ugliness. And for that brief, sweet moment, so was I.” The most exciting and horrifying event in Phantom of the Opera is not found in the novel, and it's rarely found in adaptations. Christine Daaé makes a monumental decision before the events of Gaston Leroux’s text, a choice which influences the
- [“You’ll Just Die!”: The Return of Grotesque Horror in the 1989 Phantom of the Opera](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/06/youll-just-die-the-return-of-grotesque-horror-in-the-1989-phantom-of-the-opera/) - What if Freddy Krueger loved classical music? Suppose his films were just as violent, but came with violins and opera? What if that same film included a time travel subplot? This film exists, it is glorious, and it is my favourite Phantom of the Opera adaptation. It has gore, humor, and a sincere (still terrifying)
- [Turning the Scorpion: Love Without Redemption in the 1925 Phantom of the Opera](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/06/turning-the-scorpion-love-without-redemption-in-the-1925-phantom-of-the-opera/) - The Phantom of the Opera has always needed a sequel, even its author believed that. Gaston Leroux was alive when Universal Studios released its 1925 adaptation, and he was allegedly happy with the film, or at least happy with the popularity. He even offered to write a sequel called The Return of the Phantom, which
- [“Hear this Song and Remember”: Unspoken Grief in Anastasia (1997)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/05/hear-this-song-and-remember-unspoken-grief-in-anastasia-1997/) - Anastasia Romanov is a necessary myth. The Grand Duchess' symbolic afterlife in film and popular culture is the direct result of broad trauma, a grief which came with too many names, and was thus imbued into one. The idea that Anastasia survived the Russian revolution became a symbol for life after the revolution in general,
- [“Evil Spelt Backward is Live”: Magic Science and Apocalyptic Song in Rock & Rule (1983)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/05/evil-spelt-backward-is-live-magic-science-and-apocalyptic-song-in-rock-rule-1983/) - Imagine a realm where those who rock, rule. A frightening world of anthropomorphic creatures and psychedelic science, all helmed by a terrifying pair of Jagger lips. A world where music can unite and destroy in a very literal sense. You don’t have to dream it, all these things appear in the cult classic Rock &
- [“Olympus Would Be That Way": Hercules (1997) and Disney's Mythology](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/05/olympus-would-be-that-way-hercules-1997-and-disneys-mythology/) - "From Zero to Hero" When I was in elementary school, we had a unit on ancient mythology, and our textbooks came with different illustrations of the Gods, from Egyptian to Greek. Before we began our lesson, however, our teacher had to explain to us that these were outdated faiths (specifically ancient), and that our modern
- [Dismissing Patrick Bateman: Imitation and Control in American Psycho (2000)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/05/dismissing-patrick-bateman-imitation-and-control-in-american-psycho-2000/) - IMDb categorizes American Psycho first as a comedy and then as a crime drama. Perhaps comedy is the closest word they had to satire. Either way, genres come with certain expectations and tropes, the kind which define a film as one thing vs another. While I am generally interested in overlapping genres, as stories are
- [Sympathy for the Devil: How Monster (2003) Refocuses Killer Cinema](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/04/sympathy-for-the-devil-how-monster-2003-refocuses-killer-cinema/) - “I remember…[they] set up this beautiful gigantic red and yellow ferris wheel. It lit up to nite sky. They called it the Monster.” "You'll never meet someone like me again." Most of what I know about serial killers come from documentaries and films, or simply put, they come from a camera. The camera’s entire function
- ["I’m the One They Should Be Scared Of”: Traumatic Gaze, Practical Violence, and Authorship in Birds of Prey (2020)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/04/im-the-one-they-should-be-scared-of-traumatic-gaze-practical-violence-and-authorship-in-birds-of-prey-2020/) - In her first conversation with Black Canary, Harley Quinn observes, unprompted, “A harlequin’s role is to serve, an audience, a master. You know, a harlequin is nothing without a master. And no one gives two shits who we are beyond that”. Except someone does, Harley does. And she wants you to care as well. Women
- [Backseat Driving: The Femme Fatale Passenger in The Hitch-Hiker (1953)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/04/backseat-driving-the-femme-fatale-passenger-in-the-hitch-hiker-1953/) - A flashlight moves across a dark desert road. It sweeps the sand, across faded footprints, until it stops on an empty purse. Beside it, a small handkerchief blows over, almost like the faint light pushed it aside. The spotlight then pans up a car door to reveal two unidentifiable bodies, a man and a woman,
- ["We Forget [and Remake] Who We Are": What Returns in Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/03/we-forget-and-remake-who-we-are-the-return-in-tigers-are-not-afraid-2017/) - “Once Upon a Time…” What does it mean when a story introduces itself as a fairy tale? Most fairy tale films fall into two categories: the imitation and the innovation. The first is a conscious adaptation of a specific fairy tale, one which the audience will already be familiar with and will have certain expectations
- [The Parasite's Shadow in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/03/the-parasites-shadow-in-a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night-2014/) - “Be A Good Boy.” A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a vampire film in several veins. Yes, it features a literal vampire, but it also characterizes each figure in a vampiric light. Everyone is a parasite; everyone feeds off the living. But they each feed differently, and that distinction is the most interesting
- [“Baby Knows What to Do”: Furious Motherhood in Prevenge (2016)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/03/baby-knows-what-to-do-furious-motherhood-in-prevenge-2016/) - Horror movies have a strange fixation with motherhood. Not just pregnancy, the very idea of being a mother and the sacrifices, sometimes literal, that involves. Mrs. Voorhees from Friday the 13th (1980), Norma Bates from Psycho (1960), and of course, Rosemary from the titular Rosemary’s Baby (1968). While the latter is perhaps the most obvious
- [Where the Danger Lies: Crime and Supernatural Cinema](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/03/where-the-danger-lies-crime-and-supernatural-cinema/) - An Introduction to March and April Crime movies suggest the danger is trying to get in, supernatural movies suggest it is already here. While both genres focus on the relationship between killers and victims, crime films are interested in the moment and process of infestation. Supernatural films, by contrast, focus on the infection itself. This
- [Painting Words in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/02/painting-words-in-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-2019/) - “When you’re observing me, who do you think I’m observing?” Reading visual language is impulsive and inclusive. Everyone, regardless of their background, picks up on things, little details which come together to form an unconscious impression. We automatically recognize what scenes and frames are trying to convey based on things like lighting, camera position, posture,
- [Practical Witchcraft and Style in Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) and Earwig and the Witch (2020)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/02/practical-witchcraft-and-style-in-howls-moving-castle-2004-and-earwig-and-the-witch-2020/) - Howl’s Moving Castle installs a delicate balance between practicality and magic. The film initially presents these themes in opposition by comparing Sophie’s behaviour with Howl’s. Sophie is level-headed and practical while Howl, although more fun and magical, initially seems like a self-obsessed toddler, often throwing chaotic tantrums. However, the film eventually suggests that practicality and
- [“My Gift is My Song”: Heroic Love and Eurydice in Moulin Rouge (2001)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/02/my-gift-is-my-song-heroic-love-and-eurydice-in-moulin-rouge-2001/) - I used to turn off Moulin Rouge! right before the ending, just as the curtain went down and all the characters were happy. It started as a joke, as my friends and I went through a whole phase of rewatching the film almost weekly. I quickly realized though that I had zero desire to watch
- [Gothic Love in Crimson Peak (2015)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/02/gothic-love-in-crimson-peak-2015/) - Updated April 1, 2023 While gazing at the creaky empty rooms of Crimson Peak, Thomas notes that “A house as old as this one becomes, in time, a living thing”, capable of emotion, capable of trauma. The film, Crimson Peak, goes on to suggest that this house, and the words used to describe it, are
- ["Nothing is Also Connected": Chaos in Dirk Gently (2016-2017)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/01/nothing-is-also-connected-chaos-in-dirk-gently-2016-2017/) - Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy states that the answer to life, the universe, everything is 42. No additional context or explanation is given. 42. It's the answer no one expects, and no one can quite explain, although there is plenty of debate about it online with lots of mathematicians jumping about. It doesn't make
- ["The Monster You Were Intended to Be": Nature and Nurture in Dark City (1998)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/01/i-am-the-monster-you-were-meant-to-be-nature-and-nurture-in-dark-city-1988/) - Ask yourself, would you be the same person if you had different memories? Would you have the same qualities, would you think the same way? We call this line of questioning the nature versus nurture debate, and its often found in film because it’s a useful commentary on morality and human nature. It’s also a
- [“Who Killed the World?”: Witnessing Cinema and Death in Mad Max Fury Road (2015)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2021/01/who-killed-the-world-witnessing-cinema-and-death-in-mad-max-fury-road-2015/) - In the summer of 2015, someone made the mistake of giving me 6 free movie tickets. I spent every single ticket on matinees for Mad Max Fury Road. Sure, there were other movies that summer, but for me, it was the summer of Mad Max (maybe the year of Mad Max if we are being
- ["Playing Dead": Optimism in Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/12/playing-dead-optimism-in-anna-and-the-apocalypse-2017/) - I don’t know about you, but if you’re like me, you’ve been struggling with the festive season. It feels wrong to be happy, and anytime I start feeling festive, I immediately feel guilty. I don’t think I am the only one feeling this way, as anytime I see people marketing things on TV or talking
- [“Enough is Enough Right Now!”: Capitalist Woe in The Last Holiday (2006)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/12/enough-is-enough-right-now-capitalist-woe-in-the-last-holiday-2006/) - It was estimated last year that, on average, Canadians spent around $1,593 on Christmas. From what I understand of the PwC Canadian Holiday Report*, that includes gifts, decorations, and other holiday activities. Suffice to say, we spend a lot during December, which might seem strange given our choice of holiday films. There is a large
- [“It's Christmas, You Know?”: Background Trauma and Christmas in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/12/its-christmas-you-know-background-trauma-and-christmas-in-kiss-kiss-bang-bang-2005/) - CW (Content Warning): Kiss Kiss Bang Bang deals with child abuse which is discussed here Have you ever met someone who claims that Die Hard is their favourite Christmas movie? Maybe Gremlins? These aren’t traditional holiday films, but they take place at Christmas, so it’s technically a Christmas film. Movies like this are appealing because they don’t focus
- [“Humbug”: What Makes an Unconventional Christmas Film?](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/12/humbug-what-makes-an-unconventional-christmas-film/) - Intro for December I’ve seen enough Hallmark Christmas movies to know that Christmas is an absurdly strange season. The world might be colder and darker, but our movies get more optimistic and, dare I say it, jolly. This can have negative consequences, as people feel pressured to create a perfect holiday, like the ones they
- [“In the Hall, With the Revolver”: The Murder or the Mystery in Clue (1985)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/11/in-the-hall-with-the-revolver-the-murder-or-the-mystery-in-clue-1985/) - Murder mysteries have largely fallen out of favor in modern cinema, mainly because so many of our mysteries are adaptations of Agatha Christie work. Because Christie remains immensely popular, people go into a mystery already knowing who is responsible. This begs the question: why watch a mystery when the mystery is already solved? Perhaps the
- [“The Greater Good”: Policing Excellence in Hot Fuzz (2007)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/11/the-greater-good-policing-excellence-in-hot-fuzz-2007/) - Small towns are inherently sinister because there is nothing to do but speculate. I should know, I am currently residing in a small seaside town where the biggest event in recent memory was a strong windstorm from a few years back. Because nothing really terrible or excellent ever really happens in a town like this
- [Laughing at Funerals: What Makes Dark Comedy Films So Funny?](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/11/laughing-at-funerals-what-makes-dark-comedy-films-so-funny/) - "THERE’S NOTHING THAT MAKES ME LAUGH MORE THAN BEING IN THE SITUATION WHERE YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO LAUGH” (Tom Waits) A Short Introduction Why is death so funny? Sure, it's horrible, sudden, and daunting, but that gravity just makes it more chaotic and hilarious. Death tends to be equal parts dramatic and comedic, hence the
- [“Juvenile Delinquents from Outer Space!”: Resurrecting Genre in The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (2012)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/11/juvenile-delinquents-from-outer-space-resurrecting-genre-in-the-ghastly-love-of-johnny-x-2012/) - Cinema, in its finest 35mm form, leaves a distinct taste, the kind you can’t easily forget, let alone easily recreate. It is reminiscent of a bygone movie experience where audiences would file into a small independent theater for a midnight screening of some strange and otherworldly thing. Film today might be dominated by industrial megaplexes,
- ["Jinkies!": Comfortable Mystery and Existential Panic in the Scooby-Doo Franchise](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/11/jinkies-comfortable-mystery-and-existential-panic-in-the-scooby-doo-franchise/) - Updated July 17, 2022 There is one Halloween staple which seems globally revered yet utterly formulaic. Scooby-Doo is predictable, that is one of the reasons it's so enjoyable. Every generation since the late 60’s has had a Scooby-Doo cartoon, as it has been consistently reinvented every few years. I grew up with the What’s New
- [The Devil’s Doornail: Häxan (1922) and the Cinematic Witch](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/the-devils-doornail-haxan-1922-and-the-cinematic-witch/) - Witches Reflect a History of Fear and Fascination Updated May 13, 2022 The old German saying goes, an ill-tempered woman (a witch) is like the devil's doornail. She strengthens, supports, and upholds his work. Unlike other monstrous figures, witches come from a history persecution and violence. This makes her both real and unreal, woman and
- [The Devil You Know: An Index of Cinematic Devils](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/the-devil-you-know-an-index-of-cinematic-devils/) - I was once informed that Halloween is the Devil’s birthday, seeing as Christmas is Jesus’ birthday. The town I spent my teens in believed in such things, and although that extreme Christianity has mellowed in recent years, there was a time where even studying other religions was seen as ‘threatening’ and ‘dangerously polytheistic’. I can
- [“Do You Have to Undermine Everything I Do?”: The Important Legacy of Jennifer’s Body (2009)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/do-you-have-to-undermine-everything-i-do-the-important-legacy-of-jennifers-body-2009/) - Jennifer’s Body is about exactly that: Jennifer’s body and the brutal way it gets treated. It's horrific that this brutality made its way into the film's reception, one which simply proved the film's commentary on exploitation and extreme objectification. In what may go down as the worst marketing decision in Hollywood, someone decided that the only
- [“What an Excellent Day for an Exorcism”: Demons, Cinema, and Self-Reflexive Possession](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/what-an-excellent-day-for-an-exorcism-demons-cinema-and-self-reflexive-possession/) - Exorcisms bring out the worst in us, literally. I think what makes the concept of possession so frightening is that we have no control over ourselves, and its up to the people around us to first discover that something has gone wrong, and then, to actually do something about it. The most horrifying possession film
- [“There Is Much to Be Learned from Beasts”: Science and Magic in Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/there-is-much-to-be-learned-from-beasts-science-and-magic-in-coppolas-bram-stokers-dracula-1992/) - When I was about 7 or 8, I snuck downstairs one October night to uncover where some ominous music was coming from. It had trailed up the stairs and into my room, this loud “BAda BA dada dada BAda” tune. It was late, long past my bedtime, and so I crouched behind the sofa and
- ["For the Dead Travel Fast”: Vampirism and Cinema](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/for-the-dead-travel-fast-vampirism-and-cinema/) - Vampires are, by definition, parasites. They don’t devour the living, like a zombie would, what they do is more discrete. They feed off something truly precious: our blood. As that famous quote from Dracula goes: “the blood is the life”. That is the one consistent fact in every vampire film, but what makes our blood
- [Sublime Horror in Lovecraft Country (2020) and The NeverEnding Story (1984)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/sublime-horror-in-lovecraft-country-2020-and-the-neverending-story-1984/) - "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" (H.P. Lovecraft) No convincing villain ever thinks of themselves as a villain. A bad guy is rarely as cartoony as our childhood programing would suggest. And sure, I am disappointed by the lack of outright maniacal
- ["Kill the Brain": Partial Information and the Partially Devoured in Night of the Living Dead (1968)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/10/kill-the-brain-partial-information-and-the-partially-devoured-in-night-of-the-living-dead-1968/) - The term ‘zombie’ is never spoken in what many consider the first zombie film. Neither the creators nor early viewers could have imagined just how revolutionary the film would become, and how instrumental it would be in creating contemporary lore and terminology. There had been zombies before, like Bela Lugosi’s infamous and racist White Zombie
- [“Kiss Me and I’ll Claw You to Death”: The Feline Femme Fatale in Cat People (1942)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/kiss-me-and-ill-claw-you-to-death-the-feline-femme-fatale-in-cat-people-1942/) - Imagine you're on a date with a beautiful woman. Things are going well; you decide to spend the night. As you kiss, something changes, and the woman begins to frantically shake, her skin ripping apart. And then suddenly its not a woman, it’s a panther. An actual panther. Now imagine you are that beautiful woman
- [“The Remains of the Day”: How Corpse Bride (2005) and Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Make Death More Reasonable](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/the-remains-of-the-day-how-corpse-bride-2005-and-nightmare-before-christmas-1993-make-death-more-reasonable/) - The concept of death was completely foreign to me as a child. Everything seemed to stretch out, dragging on, sometimes annoyingly so, towards nothing in particular. Afternoons would sometimes speed up. Special events like Christmas and birthdays would pass too quickly. I can remember being 3 and a 1/2 for an awfully long time, longer
- [“The Guy Sure Looks Like Plant Food to Me!”: Eating the Poor in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/the-guy-sure-looks-like-plant-food-to-me-eating-the-poor-in-little-shop-of-horrors-1986/) - Updated September 26, 2022 “On the Twenty-Third Day of the Month of September in an Early Year of a Decade Not Too Long Before Our Own…” I was never good at watering plants, but I certainly got worse after watching Little Shop of Horrors. I came across the film through my obsession with Labyrinth (1986),
- [“Life Isn’t A Musical” But Death Certainly Is: How Hazbin Hotel (2019) and Helluva Boss (2019) Make Music In Hell](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/life-isnt-a-musical-but-death-certainly-is-how-hazbin-hotel-2019-and-helluva-boss-2019-makes-music-in-hell/) - Many of the horror musicals I have highlighted in recent weeks were either critically reviled or forgotten by contemporary culture. It seems that horror musicals, except for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, are generally ignored, but that cannot be said of these creations. Since October last year, Hazbin Hotel has garnered 44 million views (as
- [“The Hardest Thing in This World is To Live in It” and Sometimes to Sing in It Too: Innovation and Buffy's “Once More, With Feeling” Episode](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/the-hardest-thing-in-this-world-is-to-live-in-it-and-sometimes-to-sing-in-it-too-innovation-and-buffys-once-more-with-feeling-episode/) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a revolutionary show, one which continues to influence the form and content of modern television. In addition to its famous characters and innovative plot, the show is often credited as creating what we now recognize as the ‘musical episode’, a convention which shows like the updated Sabrina, Supernatural, and Batman
- [“Our Lives Are One Masked Ball”: Monsters, Masks, and the Art of Imitation in The Phantom of the Opera Franchise](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/our-lives-are-one-masked-ball-monsters-masks-and-the-art-of-imitation-in-the-phantom-of-the-opera/) - “If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me” (Gaston Leroux) Compiling the Greatest Phantom Adaptations Who is The Phantom? The most compelling monsters are those we recognize in ourselves. Monsters are not simply a reflection of
- [Damnation as Infection: Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil’s Carnival](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/damnation-as-infection-repo-the-genetic-opera-and-the-devils-carnival/) - Repo! the Genetic Opera (2008) was arguably my first horror musical, or at least, it was the first horror musical I ever had a personal connection with. I grew up in the suburbs, so films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) were not shown locally, and their fandom felt rather daunting because they were
- [“NAILED IT”: (Un)Intentional Parody, Redemption, and the Musical Stage Fright (2014)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/nailed-it-unintentional-parody-redemption-and-the-musical-stage-fright-2014/) - If horror movies have taught me anything, it’s that summer camp is one of the most dangerous places in the world. The teens are reckless, the forest is dark, and the activities are deadly. I have never been to summer camp, and so I have nothing to compare these films with. As a result, I
- [“Wake Up”: Questioning Reality and Absurdity in the Musical Bang Bang Baby (2014)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/wake-up-finding-reality-in-the-horror-musical-bang-bang-baby-2014/) - “Hardly seems real from here, like it’s so strange and evil. It can’t be real” Have you ever wanted to see a musical by David Lynch? May I present Bang Bang Baby. OK, so technically Lynch never made a musical, even though his films often feature musical scenes, but his style and influence are certainly
- [“That’s the Hell of It!”: Allegory, Satire, and Musical Horror in Phantom of the Paradise (1974)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/thats-the-hell-of-itallegory-satire-and-musical-horror-in-phantom-of-the-paradise-1974/) - Revised June 2021, Phantom of the Opera month. We see a stage painted black and white, with an open coffin. It’s ready for an elaborate funeral, a Frankenstein christening if you will. Three men step forward in unison, walking towards their frenzied audience. The lead singer slashes his microphone stand across the crowd, slicing a
- ["Eyesight to the Blind": The Cult of Monroe and the Musical Tommy (1975)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/eyesight-to-the-blind-the-cult-of-monroe-and-the-musical-tommy-1975/) - Marilyn Monroe’s cult status has steadily grown since her death in 1962. You can find her in modern art, in contemporary media, and as a stock photo in some frame at Winners. She is everywhere, and yet I can’t help but feel that these images of Monroe are ultimately empty. We have transformed Monroe into
- [“I’ve Just Come to Tell You How Fabulous I Am”: The Shock in Shock Treatment (1981)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/ive-just-come-to-tell-you-how-fabulous-i-am-the-shock-in-shock-treatment-1981/) - The Rocky Horror Picture Show is perhaps the most beloved horror musical of all time. It's a controversial catchy cult classic. I could talk about the film at length (and I will on Friday) but that’s not what I am interested in today. I was just setting up some context because I want to talk
- ["The Hills Are Alive [!]": Singing, Mayhem, and Horror Musicals](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/the-hills-are-alive-singing-mayhem-and-horror-musical/) - I think horror films don't include enough singing. I’m a sucker for a horror musical, and I truly believe that the two genres are almost identical in the way they ask audiences to suspend belief. As enchanting as a musical can be, they are completely unrealistic in nearly every way. If you stop to think
- [“Entering The Town of Twin Peaks”: Introducing the Here and Gone in David Lynch's Twin Peaks (1990)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/09/entering-the-town-of-twin-peaks-introducing-the-here-and-gone-in-david-lynchs-twin-peaks-1990/) - Updated November 22, 2022 We are used to seeing frightening things appear very suddenly in film, like the overused yet effective jump scare. David Lynch films have a distorted sense of there and not, where something may arrive and vanish without warning, and never quite be explained. What is especially haunting about Lynch's films isn't
- [“Bang Bang”: Performance and Trope in Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/bang-bang-performance-and-trope-in-kill-bill-vol-2-2004/) - There is one absolute certainty in Quentin Tarantino’s two volume Kill Bill film: Beatrix is going to kill Bill. That assumption isn’t just the film’s title, it’s how revenge films operate. Bill did something horrible, and so it’s fair to assume that he will be punished by the end of the film. Because the film
- [“It’s Time I Look Them Up, Before I’m in a Box Myself”: Objects and Disruption in Amélie (2001)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/its-time-i-look-them-up-before-im-in-a-box-myself-objects-and-disruption-in-amelie-2001/) - Amélie finds beauty in witnessing the way objects impact people. She is fascinated by the pieces we leave behind and disregard, and how these objects discreetly influence us. She consistently disrupts people’s mundane routines by removing and then returning objects, which makes the object seem more powerful and mysterious. People only become aware of their
- [“The Tyranny of an Object”: Technology and Representation in Blade Runner (1982) and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/the-tyranny-of-an-object-technology-and-representation-in-blade-runner-1982-and-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/) - “The tyranny of an object… [is that] it doesn’t know I exist” (42) explains Deckard in Philip K. Dick’s 1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the novel which went on to influence Blade Runner. Deckard makes this claim while comparing the Rosen owl to his artificial sheep. The line suggests that objects are tyrannous
- [“We’ll Always Have Paris”: The Greatest Close-Up in Cinema and the “La Marseillaise” Scene in Casablanca (1942)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/well-always-have-paris-the-greatest-close-up-in-cinema-and-the-la-marseillaise-scene-in-casablanca-1942/) - Film is a form of propaganda. It's designed to make you feel a certain way, stir you into action, teach you a moral lesson. That is not a bad thing, it's still sincere, just most things are technically propaganda. Music is a truly effective form, especially national anthems. Everyone already knows the words, so its
- [“And They Knew Each Other”: Detection, Intent, and Realization in Silence of the Lambs (1991)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/and-they-knew-each-other-detection-intent-and-realization-in-silence-of-the-lambs-1991/) - A good murder mystery requires audience participation. Murder mystery films consist of two levels of detection. There are clues left for the detective and other characters, and those left for the audience. The viewer uses the genre to play detective, to investigate alongside the characters but also to observe the things which they do not.
- [Bars on the Window: Deconstructing the Crown in Basquiat (1996)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/bars-on-the-window-deconstructing-the-crown-in-basquiat-1996/) - I once heard that there is no use talking about art. Someone should have told me that before I minored in Art History. Studying and talking about art prepared me to talk about film, and I have always found the two fields remarkably similar. In fact, I think that a single shot constitutes a single
- [“Give Him a Mask and He’ll Tell You the Truth”: The Life and Death Of Ziggy in Velvet Goldmine (1998)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/give-him-a-mask-and-hell-tell-you-the-truth-the-life-and-death-of-ziggy-in-velvet-goldmine-1998/) - Biopics tread in blasphemy. There is something impossible about trying to recreate an iconic moment or figure. How can you restore what was once so revolutionary and immediate? How could you tackle such a feat? The film Velvet Goldmine radicalized the biopic genre, as it is an indirect and abstract representation of a person, rather
- [Inside Versus Out: How to Construct a Defining Moment in Film and in Character](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/inside-versus-out-how-to-construct-a-defining-moment-in-film/) - Intro for the Week(s) Sometimes the moments which define a character are completely silent. What might feel like a huge revelation for a film audience is just a slight hesitation, a glance, or even a blink in the film. Most filmmakers don’t want to draw too much attention to a shift, but you still need
- [“We Could Have Been Friends?”: The Legacy of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Feud (2017)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/we-could-have-been-friends-the-legacy-of-bette-davis-and-joan-crawford-in-feud-2017/) - Feuds are never one sided or provoked by just one event. They are a culmination of aggression, insecurity, and pain. Hollywood has a long history of encouraging infighting to sell papers and attract attention. The feud between actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis remains one of the more famous Hollywood case studies. It spans multiple
- ["Shall I Be Her?" Finding Marilyn and Monroe in My Week With Marilyn (2011)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/shall-i-be-her-finding-marilyn-and-monroe-in-my-week-with-marilyn-2011/) - The world never recovered from Marilyn Monroe. She remains the quintessential blonde beauty, the perfect image of youth and naivety. We continue to see versions of her again and again in contemporary media. She is like this frail ghost trailing behind the word beauty. Perhaps because she never lived long enough to get away from
- ["Something Different, Something Real": Finding Yourself Versus Finding the Artist in Walk the Line (2005)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/something-different-something-real-finding-yourself-versus-finding-the-artist-in-walk-the-line-2005/) - What Constitutes A Music Biopic? There are songs so legendary and so recognizable that it's easy to forget that they were painstakingly constructed. They didn’t randomly appear in the world. Someone had to create them, someone who we will potentially never meet. When we come across a song which moves us we often becomes very
- ["This is the One I'll Be Remembered For": Resurrection and the Biopic in Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/this-is-the-one-ill-be-remembered-for-resurrection-and-the-biopic-in-tim-burtons-ed-wood-1994/) - Ed Wood delivered some of the worst films of all time during his illustrious career. That quality, or lack thereof, is also what makes his films so fantastic. They might be bizarre, ill paced, and outlandish, but those are the very aspects which make them memorable. Ed Wood inspired trash and cult cinema, two genres
- [How to Summarize a Life: The Art of the Biopic](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/how-to-summarize-a-life-the-art-of-the-biopic/) - “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” (Hamilton) Given the current climate around suppressed history and idealizing the past, I have been thinking a lot about what it means to tell someone else’s story. What sort of politics to involve? What sort of things to focus on, versus what to cut? It is impossible
- ["Shall I Speak for Thee?": The Legacy of Philomela, Shakespeare’s Lavinia, and Julie Taymor’s Titus (1999)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/08/shall-i-speak-for-thee-the-legacy-of-philomela-shakespeares-lavinia-and-julie-taymors-titus-1999/) - CW (Content Warning): Rape and ViolenceThis article deals with issues of extreme violence, rape, and suppression. Please read at your own discretion Philomela and the nightingale have a long and complex literary history. For the Romantic era, these figures were synonymous with grief and sorrow, and the nightingale’s song became a way to describe women’s
- [“What’s To Come is Still Unsure”: The Filmic Detail in Twelfth Night (1996)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/whats-to-come-is-still-unsure-the-filmic-detail-in-twelfth-night-1996/) - Twelfth Night is one of the most frequently performed Shakespeare plays because of its lighthearted material. I have seen around 6 productions of the show, and each production has been radically different. Unlike a production of Phantom of the Opera (as a random example), Shakespeare plays are encouraged to radically change and offer new perspectives
- ["Who Decides? It is Written": Finding the Unknown in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/who-decides-it-is-written-finding-the-unknown-in-rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead-1990/) - One of the benefits of adapting an established story is that you don’t have to focus on that story. You can examine any detail or character you want, so long as they somehow connect to the original material. There are multiple contemporary examples of this, like the 2018 Ophelia film, and the 2019 musical &
- ["A Rose by Any Other Name": Shakespeare and Film](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/a-rose-by-any-other-name-shakespeare-and-film/) - Intro for the Week Shakespeare remains an inescapable literary force, one which haunts not just our theatrical world, but our cinematic. His plays continue to influence the very way in which we understand character and drama, not to mention comedy and satire. Film adaptations generally range from direct to modernized, and then a few which
- [Finding Room on the Screen (Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice...)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/finding-room-on-the-screen-frankenstein-pride-and-prejudice/) - Updated September 6th, 2022 I have a complicated relationship with classic adaptation films. I generally find that if you love a text, it's a lot harder to love the film, and vice versa. There are a few exceptions, typically films which are not afraid to divert from the source material and create two unique experiences,
- ["I'm Just a Woman": Quiet Rebellion in Little Women (2019)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/im-just-a-woman-the-quiet-rebellion-in-little-women-2019/) - Updated August 29th, 2021. Little Women argues that romance is a luxury, while marriage is a practicality. As the March sisters’ experience, both positions have good and bad connotations. Today however, I want to focus on the way love becomes a label in the 2019 film, and how characters like Amy are conscious of that
- [Fidelity and Adaptation: Or How To Ruin/Save Your Favourite Book](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/fidelity-and-adaptation-or-how-to-ruin-save-your-favourite-book/) - Week Intro Adaptation films arrive with a specific audience in mind, one who is already familiar with the story and has lots of opinions about it. This can be both an advantage and a disadvantage, as this informed audience will want to see your film, but they will be equally ready to hate it. I
- ["Who Am I?": Unmasking the Past and Moving Forward with the Present in HBO's Watchmen Series (2019)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/who-am-i-unmasking-the-past-and-moving-forward-with-the-present-in-hbos-watchmen-series/) - A transmedial discussion I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to continue a story, particularly when you are not the person who started it. What sort of authority do you have? What gives you the right? These are deeply complex and often problematic questions, ones which may not even have an answer. That
- ["Working on a Song": The Role of the Adaptor in Hadestown (2019)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/working-on-a-song-the-role-of-the-adaptor-in-hadestown-2019/) - Part II of III Anaïs Mitchell’s musical emphasizes the act of storytelling by focusing on storytellers, specifically Hermes and Orpheus. Both figures adapt stories by reciting myths to the audience and other characters, thus informing the characters about their world but also the viewers about mythology. As such, the musical involves two types of stories:
- [“We’re Gonna Sing It Again”: Looking Back at Adaptation in Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown (2019)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/were-gonna-sing-it-again-looking-back-at-adaptation-in-anais-mitchells-hadestown-2019/) - Part I of III We frequently look back to Orpheus by retelling his tragic story over and over, always with the same result. He loves, he doubts, and ultimately, he loses; such is the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. This adaptation trend poses the question: why do we consistently return to tragic and old stories,
- [“The Song is Now Yours”: Fandom and Transmediality in The Adventure Zone Podcast](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/the-song-is-now-yours-fandom-and-transmediality-in-the-adventure-zone-podcast/) - “The song is now yours, just as the story has always been yours” (Ep. 68: Story and Song – Finale, Part 2) When I tell people I am interested in Dungeons and Dragons, it raises some eyebrows. It is even more difficult to explain that I don’t technically play D&D, but I routinely listened to other people
- [One Story, Several Voices: Transmediality and Adaptation](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/one-story-several-voices-transmediality-and-adaptation/) - Week Intro I want to do something different for this week. I have dedicated July to discussing films which highlight the relationship between viewer and storyteller, and the various politics between that exchange. However, to situate this discussion, I need to momentarily branch away from film. This week, I am going to focus on transmedia
- [“You Can’t Stop a Story Being Told”: Why the Story Counts in Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/you-cant-stop-a-story-being-told-why-the-story-counts-in-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus-2009/) - Right now, someone is telling a story. Someone is always telling a story somewhere in the world. It seems to me that storytelling is a feat of magic, a holy act in every religion. We are sustained by stories; they nourish our culture and remind us of who we are and why. They are a
- [“What is Light Without Darkness?”: The Shadow Dance in Legend (1985)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/what-is-light-without-darkness-the-shadow-dance-in-legend-1985/) - Sometimes you come across a scene which stays with you, forever etched onto the little projection screen in your head. When I was growing up, my parents didn’t care about film ratings. Now, granted, I wasn’t watching Saw films or anything like that, it’s just that my parents believed that film ratings where far too
- [Building Venus: Automaton Lore in The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/building-venus-automaton-lore-in-the-tales-of-hoffmann-1951/) - I once watched a woman perform a 5- minute-long aria after her character had been left for dead and shoved into a trunk. Nothing about opera is average or realistic. It’s a hyper stylized, outrageous, and loud genre where subtlety is purposefully avoided. Opera films are no different, particularly movies like The Tales of Hoffmann,
- ["Living in a Fairy Tale": The World as a Story in Big Fish (2003)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/living-in-a-fairy-tale-the-world-as-a-story-in-big-fish-2003/) - Hollywood is addicted to love at first sight. It's rather symbolic of how audiences understand film. We rely on first impressions in movies, they are what captive and communicate with us. If we don't 'fall in love' with the film in the first few moments, then what is to stop us from leaving or thinking
- [Far, Far, Away: Atmosphere and Reinvention in Film](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/far-far-away-atmosphere-and-reinvention-in-film/) - A fairy tale can transform the ridiculous and seemingly naïve into something serious and heartfelt. By definition, a fairy tale is an impossible story filled with nonexistent people and creatures. But these stories hold us and perhaps even return us to a more innocent, or nostalgic, time and age. That is not to suggest that
- [Finding “The Best Place by the Fire”: Jim Henson’s The Storyteller (1987-1991) and The 10th Kingdom (2000)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/finding-the-best-place-by-the-fire-jim-hensons-the-storyteller-1987-1991-and-the-10th-kingdom-2000/) - Why do we tell stories about impossible things? What is the point of examining something which we can never experience? Stories tell us who we were, who we are, and who we might become. Fairy tales are particularly important because they are a way to study history. We can tell a great deal about our
- [“I Was Dancing the White Swan”: Acting as Possession in Black Swan (2010)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/07/i-was-dancing-the-white-swan-acting-as-possession-in-black-swan-2010/) - Updated June 10 There is a moment when someone shares a story that they mesh with the character they are describing. Their words become the character’s words, and the subject and speaker become one. Something similar happens when an actor is cast in a well-known production, where the characters, dialogue, and costuming are already established
- ["It's Not Magic; It's Just Shiny": Making Magic in The Brothers Grimm (2005)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/its-not-magic-its-just-shiny-making-magic-in-the-brothers-grimm-2005/) - Deep down, we want certain fairy tales to come true. We are told from a young age that if we wish on a star, our greatest fantasy or adventure could begin. At any moment, something will whisk us away from our mundane life towards some epic adventure, possibly to fight a dragon or troll. That
- ["And They Lived Happily": Cinderella and Ever After (1998)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/and-they-lived-happily-cinderella-and-ever-after-1998/) - I never liked Cinderella. Even as a kid, it was my least favourite story because I never understood why Cinderella stayed with her evil stepmother. Why did she do all those chores? Why did she marry a guy she barely knew, particularly one obsessed with feet? I also disliked the moral of the story, ‘be
- ["Once Upon a Time": Convention and Reinvention in Film](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/once-upon-a-time-convention-and-reinvention-in-film/) - “Once Upon a Time” is so perfectly unspecific that it opens itself to so many possibilities. When did the story occur? Once. Where did it happen? Not important. This lack of information makes the story accessible to all, meaning anyone can personalize or develop it. Because stories are always changing, a storyteller can only momentarily
- [“Does this Look Like A Kid’s Story to You?”: Alice and Adaptation](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/does-this-look-like-a-kids-story-to-you-alice-and-adaptation/) - For this week's highlight list, I have chosen a few of my favourite Alice adaptations, versus the indirect adaptation I have been discussing. These are projects which do something unique with the Alice in Wonderland story, or those which consciously participate with the legacy of Carroll's work. Alice (2009) This miniseries does an excellent job
- ["Mad World": Following the Rabbit in Donnie Darko (2001) and Alice in Wonderland](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/mad-world-following-the-rabbit-in-donnie-darko-2001-and-alice-in-wonderland/) - There is something incredibly moving about the ending of Donnie Darko. It is like all the pieces have come together but in a different shape than what we expected. The film ends by returning to its beginning, albeit a version which did not happen before. In this reality, the plane engine kills Donnie, thus reversing
- [“It’s My Dream”: Wonderland and MirrorMask (2005)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/its-my-dream-wonderland-and-mirrormask-2005/) - You are never entirely sure if Wonderland is Alice's dream or not. Although Alice wakes up at the end of Lewis Carroll's book, it is left unclear if she really was ‘just’ sleeping. This is because the narrative has previously suggested that Alice has two personalities: her reality self and her Wonderland self. There is
- [Following the Rabbit: Hollywood as Wonderland](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/following-the-rabbit-hollywood-as-wonderland/) - Introduction for the week Why is our culture so obsessed with Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland? Even if you have never read Carroll’s work, you are probably familiar with the story just from our cultural consciousness. It seems like we are always chasing after some white rabbit in film, and its possible there have been
- [The Unread Library: John Waters and the Art of Reference](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/the-unread-library-john-waters-and-the-art-of-reference/) - John Waters’ films incorporate my favourite kind of intertextuality: parody. His films are hyper-aware of the filmmaking industry and generally refer to famous mainstream films, albeit in bizarre ways. For those unfamiliar, Waters is a Baltimore born director and connoisseur of filth and cult cinema. His films balance crude with clever, and you either love
- [“It’s Not Too Much Is It?”: Excess and Modernity in Marie Antoinette (2006)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/its-not-too-much-is-it-excess-and-modernity-in-marie-antoinette-2006/) - The shopping scene in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is sweet enough to give you a cavity. It is ironic that the film was criticized for the very same qualities that Antoinette was, as it's as beautiful and excessive as its subject. Many reviewers focus on the film’s excessive nature without discussing why this excess is
- [Fandom is Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/fandom-as-wes-cravens-new-nightmare-1994/) - “Meet Your Maker!” Director Wes Craven found his subjects by reading the newspaper. Scream (1996) was inspired by the Gainesville Ripper, and Craven based A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) on a series of description given by the Los Angeles Times. The paper dedicated several articles to a group of Hmong refugees who had fled
- [Self-Aware Cinema: Intertextuality and the Art of Reference](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/self-aware-cinema-intertexuality-and-the-art-of-reference/) - Introduction for the Week What is self-aware cinema? It’s essentially when a film gestures to the audience that it is aware of itself as a film, and of the expectations and conventions associated with that medium. This can be as simple as breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the audience, like in Deadpool.
- [“You’re the Good Guy Now?”: The Violent Switch in Death of Stalin (2017)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/youre-the-good-guy-now-the-violent-switch-in-death-of-stalin-2017/) - A companion piece to my earlier post (“It’s So Nice to Finally Meet You”: The 'What If' in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) Similar to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Death of Stalin plays with our expectations and understanding of history. While Tarantino’s film focuses on the build up to trauma, Death of
- ["It’s So Nice to Finally Meet You”: The 'What If' in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/its-so-nice-to-finally-meet-you-the-what-if-in-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-2019/) - We already know how Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is going to end before we watch it. Even if we are not aware of the details, Sharon Tate’s death (and the deaths of Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger) left an undeniable impression on Hollywood. The films got darker, both literally and narratively.
- [“Who’s There?”: Attacking with Sound in Suspiria (1977)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/whos-there-attacking-with-sound-in-suspiria-1977/) - Horror films are interested in what we can see versus what we anticipate. Most times, the horror we imagine is more frightening than anything a film could provide. We already know ourselves, our triggers, and our phobias, which means that being afraid is deeply personal. Perhaps fear tells us more about ourselves then any other
- ["Witness Me": Mad Max Fury Road (2015) and the Politics of Violence](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/witness-me-mad-max-fury-road-2015-and-the-politics-of-violence/) - Every shot is a choice, you choose to show one thing rather than another, but you also choose to show that thing in a certain way versus another. A word 'shot' can mean two things in a film, as it can be a literal shot fired by one of the characters, or the frame used
- [Imagined and Unseen Violence in Film](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/imagined-and-unseen-violence-in-film/) - What is imagined violence in a film? It is when a film insinuates a violent moment, object, or background without showing it to the audience. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, the simplest being just describing something violent which happened off camera. A more complicated and rewarding approach is when filmmaking techniques
- [How to Open a TV Show (Umbrella Academy, American Horror Story...)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/how-to-open-a-tv-show-umbrella-academy-american-horror-story/) - There is something unique about the first moments in a TV show or limited series. Because TV offers so room to tell a story, its opening serves as an introduction to both the episode and the series. That in mind, I felt like these examples needed a separate list for this week's highlights. My previous
- [How to Open a Film (Scott Pilgrim, Birds of Prey...)](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/how-to-open-a-film-scott-pilgrim-birds-of-prey/) - For this week's highlight list, I have picked a few memorable intro scenes in film and discussed why they stood out to me. I have a separate list which focuses on a few opening scenes from television. Scott Pilgrim (2010) I remember the first time I watched this film. I knew from the pixelated Universal
- [Shooting Expectations in Seven Psychopaths](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/shooting-expectations-in-seven-psychopaths/) - Seven Psychopaths begins with a seemingly random murder. It feels like it comes out of nowhere, but in fact, the opposite is true. The killer spends the film's first few minutes just walking up to his victims from behind, and there is no doubt that something violent is about to happen. And yet, this violence
- [First Impressions](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/first-impressions/) - ‘A Good Intro Should Hook Your Reader's Eye' I am sure many of you have come across this phrase when writing a paper. It is a creepy image commonly used by writing teachers across the globe, but I think it also accurately describes how we watch film. Cinema is such an immediate and visual experience,
- [“The Future’s Not Ours to See”: Heathers and Foreshadowing](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/2020/06/the-futures-not-ours-to-see-heathers-and-foreshadowing/) - There is something prophetic about Heathers, something which would have prevented it from being released today. There were two attempts to modernize the material, but the film is the most successful and well-known venture. The musical has a small but resilient fandom, and the 2018 television series was canceled following multiple school shootings in the

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- [Film Theory](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/category/film-theory/)
- [Interpreting Genre](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/category/interpreting-genre/)

## Tags

- [intro](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/intro/)
- [first week](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/first-week/)
- [opening scene](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/opening-scene/)
- [Coraline](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/coraline/)
- [neil gaiman](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/neil-gaiman/)
- [mother](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/mother/)
- [horror](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/horror/)
- [seven psychopaths](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/seven-psychopaths/)
- [martin mcdonagh](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/martin-mcdonagh/)
- [heathers](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/heathers/)
- [cult film](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/cult-film/)
- [doris day](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/doris-day/)
- [music](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/music/)
- [soundtrack](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/soundtrack/)
- [winona ryder](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/winona-ryder/)
- [highlights](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/highlights/)
- [birds of prey](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/birds-of-prey/)
- [scott pilgrim](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/scott-pilgrim/)
- [labyrinth](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/labyrinth/)
- [pan's labyrinth](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/pans-labyrinth/)
- [bunraku](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/bunraku/)
- [american horror story](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/american-horror-story/)
- [gravity falls](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/gravity-falls/)
- [series of unfortunate events](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/series-of-unfortunate-events/)
- [umbrella academy](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/umbrella-academy/)
- [television](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/television/)
- [mirrormask](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/mirrormask/)
- [jim henson](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/jim-henson/)
- [pans labyrinth](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/pans-labyrinth-2/)
- [film](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/film/)
- [week intro](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/week-intro/)
- [mad max](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/mad-max/)
- [george miller](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/george-miller/)
- [imagined violence](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/imagined-violence/)
- [suspiria](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/suspiria/)
- [score](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/score/)
- [once upon a time in hollywood](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/)
- [Quentin Tarantino](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/quentin-tarantino/)
- [death of stalin](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/death-of-stalin/)
- [comedy](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/comedy/)
- [intertexuality](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/intertexuality/)
- [deadpool](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/deadpool/)
- [percy jackson](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/percy-jackson/)
- [wes craven](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/wes-craven/)
- [new nightmare](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/new-nightmare/)
- [nightmare on elm street](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/nightmare-on-elm-street/)
- [Marie Antoinette](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/marie-antoinette/)
- [sofia coppola](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/sofia-coppola/)
- [David Bowie](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/david-bowie/)
- [Knight's Tale](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/knights-tale/)
- [Knights Tale](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/knights-tale-2/)
- [John Waters](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/john-waters/)
- [Divine](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/divine/)
- [Pink Flamingos](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/pink-flamingos/)
- [Cry baby](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/cry-baby/)
- [Serial Mom](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/serial-mom/)
- [Cecil B Demented](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/cecil-b-demented/)
- [Alice in Wonderland](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/alice-in-wonderland/)
- [donnie darko](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/donnie-darko/)
- [adaptation](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/adaptation/)
- [gotham](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/gotham/)
- [jan svankmajer](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/jan-svankmajer/)
- [Us](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/us/)
- [Jordan Peele](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/jordan-peele/)
- [fairy tales](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/fairy-tales/)
- [Cinderella](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/cinderella/)
- [Ever After](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/ever-after/)
- [brothers grimm](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/brothers-grimm/)
- [Terry Gilliam](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/terry-gilliam/)
- [Black Swan](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/black-swan/)
- [Story](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/story/)
- [The Storyteller](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-storyteller/)
- [10th Kingdom](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/10th-kingdom/)
- [Big Fish](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/big-fish/)
- [Tim Burton](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/tim-burton/)
- [Tales of Hoffmann](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/tales-of-hoffmann/)
- [opera](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/opera/)
- [folklore](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/folklore/)
- [Legend](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/legend/)
- [fantasy](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/fantasy/)
- [tim curry](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/tim-curry/)
- [The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus/)
- [Tom Waits](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/tom-waits/)
- [transmediality](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/transmediality/)
- [The Adventure Zone](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-adventure-zone/)
- [podcast](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/podcast/)
- [Hadestown](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/hadestown/)
- [Musical](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/musical/)
- [Anais Mitchell](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/anais-mitchell/)
- [Persephone](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/persephone/)
- [Watchmen](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/watchmen/)
- [HBO](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/hbo/)
- [Little Women](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/little-women/)
- [Greta Gerwig](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/greta-gerwig/)
- [Coen Brothers](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/coen-brothers/)
- [O Brother Where Art Thou](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/o-brother-where-art-thou/)
- [myth](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/myth/)
- [Frankenstein](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/frankenstein/)
- [Anna Karenina](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/anna-karenina/)
- [Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/natasha-pierre-and-the-great-comet-of-1812/)
- [Pride and Prejudice](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/pride-and-prejudice/)
- [Shakespeare](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/shakespeare/)
- [midsummer nights dream](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/midsummer-nights-dream/)
- [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead/)
- [twelfth night](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/twelfth-night/)
- [Julie Taymor](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/julie-taymor/)
- [Ovid](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/ovid/)
- [Philomela](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/philomela/)
- [Biopic](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/biopic/)
- [Ed Wood](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/ed-wood/)
- [Bela Lugosi](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/bela-lugosi/)
- [Orson Welles](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/orson-welles/)
- [Walk the Line](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/walk-the-line/)
- [Johnny Cash](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/johnny-cash/)
- [Marilyn Monroe](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/marilyn-monroe/)
- [My Week with Marilyn](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/my-week-with-marilyn/)
- [Bette Davis](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/bette-davis/)
- [Joan Crawford](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/joan-crawford/)
- [Feud](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/feud/)
- [Ryan Murphy](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/ryan-murphy/)
- [Whatever Happened to Baby Jane](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/whatever-happened-to-baby-jane/)
- [Velvet Goldmine](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/velvet-goldmine/)
- [Todd Haynes](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/todd-haynes/)
- [Basquiat](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/basquiat/)
- [Warhol](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/warhol/)
- [Silence of the Lambs](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/silence-of-the-lambs/)
- [hannibal](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/hannibal/)
- [Casablanca](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/casablanca/)
- [Blade Runner](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/blade-runner/)
- [Ridley Scott](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/ridley-scott/)
- [Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/)
- [Philip K. Dick](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/philip-k-dick/)
- [Amélie](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/amelie/)
- [objects](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/objects/)
- [Kill Bill](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/kill-bill/)
- [Twin Peaks](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/twin-peaks/)
- [David Lynch](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/david-lynch/)
- [Horror musical](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/horror-musical/)
- [Shock Treatment](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/shock-treatment/)
- [Rocky Horror Picture Show](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/rocky-horror-picture-show/)
- [Tommy](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/tommy/)
- [The Who](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-who/)
- [Seven Year Itch](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/seven-year-itch/)
- [Phantom of the Paradise](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/phantom-of-the-paradise/)
- [Faust](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/faust/)
- [Bang Bang Baby](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/bang-bang-baby/)
- [Stage Fright](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/stage-fright/)
- [Repo the Genetic Opera](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/repo-the-genetic-opera/)
- [Devils Carnival](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/devils-carnival-2/)
- [Phantom of the Opera](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/phantom-of-the-opera/)
- [Buffy the Vampire Slayer](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/buffy-the-vampire-slayer/)
- [Once More With Feeling](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/once-more-with-feeling/)
- [Buffy](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/buffy/)
- [Helluva Boss](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/helluva-boss/)
- [Hazbin Hotel](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/hazbin-hotel/)
- [Little Shop of Horrors](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/little-shop-of-horrors/)
- [Frank Oz](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/frank-oz/)
- [Nightmare Before Christmas](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/nightmare-before-christmas/)
- [Corpse Bride](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/corpse-bride/)
- [Cat People](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/cat-people/)
- [Femme Fatale](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/femme-fatale/)
- [Monster](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/monster/)
- [Dracula](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/dracula/)
- [Mary Shelley](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/mary-shelley/)
- [Night of the Living Dead](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/night-of-the-living-dead/)
- [Zombie](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/zombie/)
- [George Romero](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/george-romero/)
- [Lovecraft](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/lovecraft/)
- [Lovecraft Country](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/lovecraft-country/)
- [The NeverEnding Story](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-neverending-story/)
- [Vampires Vs the Bronx](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/vampires-vs-the-bronx/)
- [Bram Stoker](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/bram-stoker/)
- [Vampire](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/vampire/)
- [Francis Ford Coppola](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/francis-ford-coppola/)
- [The Exorcist](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-exorcist/)
- [Constantine](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/constantine/)
- [Demon](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/demon/)
- [Jennifer's Body](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/jennifers-body/)
- [Jennifers Body](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/jennifers-body-2/)
- [Karyn Kusama](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/karyn-kusama/)
- [Megan Fox](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/megan-fox/)
- [Amanda Seyfried](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/amanda-seyfried/)
- [Beetlejuice](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/beetlejuice/)
- [devil](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/devil/)
- [the prophecy](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-prophecy/)
- [preacher](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/preacher/)
- [the devils advocate](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-devils-advocate/)
- [Haxan](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/haxan/)
- [witch](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/witch/)
- [witchcraft](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/witchcraft/)
- [Scooby-Doo](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/scooby-doo/)
- [Supernatural](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/supernatural/)
- [BuzzFeed Unsolved](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/buzzfeed-unsolved/)
- [The Ghastly Love of Johnny X](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-ghastly-love-of-johnny-x/)
- [Rebel Without A Cause](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/rebel-without-a-cause/)
- [Dark comedy](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/dark-comedy/)
- [Death at a Funeral](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/death-at-a-funeral/)
- [Hot Fuzz](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/hot-fuzz/)
- [Edgar Wright](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/edgar-wright/)
- [Stepford Wives](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/stepford-wives/)
- [Clue](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/clue/)
- [Agatha Christie](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/agatha-christie/)
- [Knives Out](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/knives-out/)
- [Murder on the Orient Express](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/murder-on-the-orient-express/)
- [Murder Mystery](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/murder-mystery/)
- [Christmas](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/christmas/)
- [Kiss Kiss Bang Bang](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/kiss-kiss-bang-bang/)
- [Die Hard](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/die-hard/)
- [Gremlins](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/gremlins/)
- [The Last Holiday](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-last-holiday/)
- [Queen Latifah](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/queen-latifah/)
- [Holiday](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/holiday/)
- [Anna and the Apocalypse](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/anna-and-the-apocalypse/)
- [Shaun of the Dead](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/shaun-of-the-dead/)
- [John McPhail](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/john-mcphail/)
- [mad max fury road](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/mad-max-fury-road/)
- [Dark City](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/dark-city/)
- [Science Fiction](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/science-fiction/)
- [Richard O'Brien](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/richard-obrien/)
- [Dirk Gently](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/dirk-gently/)
- [Douglas Adams](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/douglas-adams/)
- [Crimson Peak](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/crimson-peak/)
- [Guillermo del Toro](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/guillermo-del-toro/)
- [Moulin Rouge](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/moulin-rouge/)
- [Orpheus and Eurydice](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/orpheus-and-eurydice/)
- [Baz Luhrmann](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/baz-luhrmann/)
- [Howl's Moving Castle](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/howls-moving-castle/)
- [Spirited Away](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/spirited-away/)
- [Earwig and the Witch](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/earwig-and-the-witch/)
- [Studio Ghibli](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/studio-ghibli/)
- [Hayao Miyazaki](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/hayao-miyazaki/)
- [Portrait of a Lady on Fire](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/)
- [Crime](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/crime/)
- [true crime](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/true-crime/)
- [Supernatural horror](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/supernatural-horror/)
- [Prevenge](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/prevenge/)
- [Rosemary's Baby](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/rosemarys-baby/)
- [Psycho](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/psycho/)
- [Friday the 13th](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/friday-the-13th/)
- [Brian De Palma](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/brian-de-palma/)
- [A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/)
- [Ana Lily Amirpour](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/ana-lily-amirpour/)
- [Tigers Are Not Afraid](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/tigers-are-not-afraid/)
- [Issa López](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/issa-lopez/)
- [Promising Young Woman](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/promising-young-woman/)
- [Emerald Fennell](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/emerald-fennell/)
- [Ida Lupino](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/ida-lupino/)
- [The Hitch-Hiker](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-hitch-hiker/)
- [film noir](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/film-noir/)
- [Harley Quinn](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/harley-quinn/)
- [Cathy Yan](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/cathy-yan/)
- [Suicide Squad](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/suicide-squad/)
- [Patty Jenkins](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/patty-jenkins/)
- [American Psycho](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/american-psycho/)
- [Mary Harron](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/mary-harron/)
- [Fight Club](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/fight-club/)
- [Betty Boop](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/betty-boop/)
- [Roger Rabbit](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/roger-rabbit/)
- [Who Framed Roger Rabbit](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/who-framed-roger-rabbit/)
- [Worthikids](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/worthikids/)
- [Hercules](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/hercules/)
- [Greek Mythology](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/greek-mythology/)
- [Disney](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/disney/)
- [Moana](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/moana/)
- [Rock & Rule](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/rock-rule/)
- [Debbie Harry](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/debbie-harry/)
- [Anastasia](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/anastasia/)
- [Rasputin](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/rasputin/)
- [Gaston Leroux](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/gaston-leroux/)
- [Andrew Lloyd Webber](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/andrew-lloyd-webber/)
- [Lon Chaney](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/lon-chaney/)
- [Robert Englund](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/robert-englund/)
- [Freddy Krueger](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/freddy-krueger/)
- [The Addams Family](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-addams-family/)
- [Dark Shadows](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/dark-shadows/)
- [The Munsters](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/the-munsters/)
- [Charles Addams](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/charles-addams/)
- [Twilight Zone](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/twilight-zone/)
- [Wednesday Addams](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/wednesday-addams/)
- [Addams Family Values](https://youremindmeoftheframe.ca/tag/addams-family-values/)
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