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Promising Young Woman by Jonny Numb
Promising Young Woman: Advancing Toward the Inevitable Promising Young Woman is a revenge film that cuts differently than I Spit on Your Grave or Ms. 45, but stands alongside those efforts as one of the best of its kind. It differentiates itself from conventional thriller fare by advancing toward organic-feeling inevitabilities, not mechanical twists and turns.…
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I Spit On Your Grave Deja Vu by Jonny Numb
Déjà Vu: The Vengeance Cinematic Universe Long before I Spit on Your Grave Deja Vu, chronicling the brutal rape of Jennifer Hills (a fearless Camille Keaton) over the course of a fateful day, 1978’s I Spit on Your Grave didn’t flinch from depictions of full nudity and violent retribution. The men of the piece barreled forward…
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Strong Women by Crash
Strong Women of Horror When it comes to strong women in horror, there seems to be a lot of them. After all, the slasher sub-genre has the perpetual “final girl.” She’s the smart one who doesn’t drink or have sex, and stands up to the big, bad scumbag at the end of the film –…
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THE LAST KNOCK podcast presents: Revenge
Revenge: My Only Friend… Horror has one of the most unique and disturbing sub-genres in all of cinema: rape. Maybe it’s not an official sub-genre, but it certainly does exist. Now, you can add the French film, Revenge to this most unsettling category. Writer/Director Coralie Fargeat’s first feature explores one woman’s quest to survive an…
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Interview with TraCee from SCRM Radio by Jonny Numb
TraCee brings the horror with SCRM Radio It seems like there’s nothing TraCee (aka Tracy Lewis) can’t do: in addition to being a gifted singer-songwriter and running her own radio station (SCRM Radio), she is an incredible supporter of independent artists. Oh, and she’s also a huge fan of horror. I recently had the opportunity…
