I Changed My Thesis
Originally, my history BA thesis was going to be deconstructing the Starz/Sky TV collaboration Penny Dreadful.
I changed it.
I had been forcing my way through the show to make notes for my work, but then one day I started thinking about Bill Gunn’s ‘Ganja and Hess’ way too much and it changed my whole concept.
Now, I’ll be writing my thesis on linguistic violence against women and the monstrous feminine in horror, examining terminology used against women and how those words are contextualized historically within horror as a genre.
There’s a lot of material to cover in this paper, as I already have over 50 sources, but to give an idea of what I’m looking at, the following are the movies I’ll be using for the paper:
Am I Quiet Enough For You Yet?
Audition (1999)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
...Will Still Become a Wolf When the Autumn Moon is Bright
Ginger Snaps (2000)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
I Drank All the Blood That I Could
Ganja and Hess (1973)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Holy Water Cannot Help You Now
Def By Temptation (1990)
Possession (1981)
They Come to Drink, They Come to Dance, to Sacrifice a Human Heart
The Lure (2015)
She-Creature (2001)
Burned But Not Buried This Time
The Craft (1996)
The VVitch (2015)
So stay tuned for ‘At Least You’ll Sanctify Me When I’m Dead: A History of Linguistic Violence Against Women and the Monstrous Feminine Within Horror’.
This is gonna be fun.
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hi chey!! how are you? wanted to ask you which horror movie is your favorite one :3
Ohhhhhh this is a hard question I have sooooo many but I'll give my top 5 (in no particular order)
1: Def by Temptation (1990)
2: Tales from the Hood (1995)
3: Candyman (1992)
4: Leprechaun in the Hood (2001)
5: Demon Knight (1995)
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Favorite first watches of October:
The Black Cat (1934), dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), dir. James Whale
Onibaba (1964), dir. Kaneto Shindo
Kill, Baby...Kill! (1966), dir. Mario Bava
The Cremator (1969), dir. Juraj Herz
Bloodsucking Freaks (1976), dir. Joel M. Reed
Mr. Vampire (1985), dir. Ricky Lau
Def by Temptation (1990), dir. James Bond III
Dust Devil (1992), dir. Richard Stanley
Two Orphan Vampires (1996), dir. Jean Rollin
Lists of my 31 days of horror watches: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
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Def by Temptation (1990)
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On May 29, 1992, Def by Temptation debuted in Finland.
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Now time for Def By Temptation
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#Horror films released on March 23rd...
#ForbiddenPlanet 1956(limited). #scifi #sciencefiction
#Anguish 1987(Madrid).
#ZeldaRubinstein
#DefbyTemptation 1990(Chapel Hill, North Carolina).
#TheHillsHaveEyes2 2007(US).
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"Def by Temptation", director James Bond III, 1990.
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New Horror 2022 - Day 13
"The Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell (1852)
"I would come, but cruel, wicked Hester holds me very tight."
Gothic af.
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"The Boar's Head Beast" by George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, Wayne Howard (1975)
"I toyed with forces I couldn't control."
This has bits of Lovecraft but it’s mostly an adventure story, and that just reminds me that so much of the adventure stuff I loved as a kid is from the action subgenre of horror.
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Def by Temptation dir. James Bond III (1990)
"Honey, I’ve given you something there’s no cure for."
This was an interesting contrast with Ganja & Hess. It lacks the redemptive element sewn throughout that movie, instead leaning into a Tales from the Cyptesque comedic cautionary tale, and a heavy dose of Christian moralism.
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This Whatever Wednesday, Jeremiah looks at Def By Temptation, a creepy and surprisingly understated Troma flick.
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Ended up enjoying Def by Temptation, from 1990,
favorite lines,
"Well that fuckin' plan didn't fuckin' work."
"Man, there's a fuckin' devil bitch after us."
"Hard up, I ain't no stranger to wet panties, hey.
And I'm also on a first name basis with pussy."
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