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briarrosefromthedead · 1 year

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The House on Sorority Row (1982) dir. Mark Rosman

#the house on sorority row #filmedit #horroredit #mark rosman #kate mcneil #kathryn mcneil #horror #clowns #mygifs

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film-o-teka · 7 months

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The House on Sorority Row, 1982

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costumeloverz71 · 8 months

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Augusta Barclay (Kate McNeil) Black plaid dress.. North & South: Book 2, Love & War (1986) Costume by Robert Fletcher.

#augusta barclay #kate mcneil #north & south: book 2 #love & war #robert fletcher

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anhed-nia · 2 years

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BLOGTOBER 10/11/2022: MONKEY SHINES

MONKEY SHINES drives me crazy for the sole, stupid reason that for much of my life, I have been walking the earth assuming that it is a Stephen King adaptation. This is absolutely not true. I'm sure I just think this because of George Romero's frequent collaboration with King, and because its famous poster so has the bold, exaggerated look of pulp horror covers from the 1980s. MONKEY SHINES is adapted from a novel by British author Michael Stewart, but the screenplay is by Romero himself. It is entirely possible that by 1988, a lot of King's style and approach may have rubbed off on the director, so maybe I'm not completely crazy for harboring this delusion: it's got psychic powers, a domestic animal that goes berserk, and small town drama overlayed with outrageous sci-fi and horror elements. But still, it bugs me that I thought this. I should know better!

MONKEY SHINES is a deeply weird movie that passes for normal due its above-par production value, fine performances, name brand actors, and naturalistic dialog. Perhaps also in the heyday of writers like King and Michael Crichton, this wacky sci-fi thriller, about a paraplegic who forms a corrupting psychic link with his helper monkey, didn't seem so unusual. But inside of this mainstream thriller is a freaky psychodrama with which Freud would have had a field day.

A Capuchin helper monkey named Ella enters the life of law student Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) when an accident renders him paralyzed from the neck down. His days are brightened by Ella's surprising competence and seemingly personal affection for Allan—and by the arrival of her trainer Melanie (Kate McNeil), who also develops personal feelings for Allan. However, the deeper Ella and Allan's bond grows, the more Allan is given over to emotion, struggling to control his escalating rage. Eventually it comes out that Ella is a test subject for an experimental drug, and as the resulting mind meld with Allan makes him more animal than man, it also enables Ella to act out Allan's wrathful impulses.

Somehow the monkey part of the movie isn't as bizarre as the interpersonal drama. When Allan becomes paralyzed, his whole existence turns into a power struggle with the women in his life. His plight begins when he is cuckolded by his own surgeon, and without his girlfriend around to help out, his mother Dorothy (Joyce Van Patten) forces her way into the house. Dorothy forms a sort of infantilizing tag team with the pious Nurse Maryanne (Christine Forrest, Romero's then-wife and frequent collaborator), from whom Melanie and Ella have to defend Allan. Where Maryanne is a castrating school marm type, Dorothy is inappropriately intimate with her son, insisting on bathing him and trying to drive out his new girlfriend. Melanie is mainly worried about Allan's increasing loss of civility…and also, perhaps, about Ella's increasing possessiveness. The monkey is firmly the other woman. There are male antagonists in the film—ambitious, inhumane scientists played by Stanley Tucci and Stephen Root—but they tend to take a back seat to Allan's conflicts with women. From his wheelchair-bound position, Allan needs to literally grow up, wresting power back from his nurse, putting his mother in her place, and choosing a mature relationship over the regressive, obsessive affair with the monkey.

MONKEY SHINES may look like a regular mainstream movie of the period, but with all that going on, it has more in common with a neurotic exploitation movie like THE BABY, or SOMETIMES AUNT MARTHA DOES DREADFUL THINGS, or BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER. This may not be the sort of place where you normally expect to find a bunch of psychoanalytic rumination, but it's sure in there, and it's part of what makes MONKEY SHINES so surprising. That, and the fact that it's not a Stephen King movie.

But, there is one more thing about MONKEY SHINES the surprised me, personally. When I first started dating my husband some eleven years ago, we hit it off immediately, but we seemed like a pretty unlikely pair. I was (am) an inverted little horror ghoul, and he was almost aggressively normal: a friendly, handsome data specialist who liked beer, bikes, and coffee, and whose cultural tastes skewed just a little indie. I wasn't sure what I could have to offer such a person, but on our third date, he made an effort to reach across the aisle by informing me that when he was a kid, his mother's therapist was the former owner of one of the monkeys in MONKEY SHINES. We don't know if it was the star, Boo, or one of the lab extras (probably the latter), but this therapist had a framed lobby card mounted on his waiting room wall featuring the movie's shocking key art. My husband used to have to stare at it while he was waiting for his mother's appointment to end, and when he finally asked about it, he learned that the doctor used to have one of the movie's animal performers. When my then-new boyfriend told me this, I nearly fell out of my chair, and we've been laughing about it ever since.

#blogtober #blogtober 2022 #monkey shines #horror #sci-fi #nature amok #thriller #psychic powers #monkey #capuchin #jason beghe #christine forrest #joyce van patten #kate mcneil #stanley tucci #stephen root #michael stewart #george a. romero #george romero

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2ndaryprotocol · 1 year

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The cult classic ‘The House On Sorority Row’ (aka ‘House Of Evil’) snuck into US theaters this day 40 years ago. 🔨🔫🔪

“𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎. 𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚒𝚝.”

#otd #horror #movies #1982 #1983 #slasher #cult classic #the house on sorority row #mark rosman #Richard Band #Kate McNeil #eileen davidson #Harley Jane Kozak #Jodi Draigie #Ellen Dorsher #sorority row #Michael Kuhn #Michael Sergio #Spotify

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moviesandmania · 3 months

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THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (1982) Classic slasher - free to watch on YouTube

‘Sorority Sisters… Sisters in Life. Sisters in Death.’ The House on Sorority Row is a 1982 American slasher horror film about a group of young women who are stalked and murdered in revenge for a past prank. Also released as House of Evil Written and directed by Mark Rosman (The Invader; Evolver; Mutant [uncredited]), with additional dialogue by Bobby Fine, the VAE Productions movie stars Kate…

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#1982 1983 #Eileen Davidson #free to watch on YouTube #free to watch online #horror slasher #Janis Ward #Kate McNeil #Mark Rosman #movie film #review reviews #Robin Meloy #The House on Sorority Row

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scottheim · 1 year

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How do we know she IS alive?

#house on sorority row #80s horror #slashers #jodi draigie #kate mcneil #janis ward

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tuttle-did-it · 1 year

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Happy Threshold Day to all

and to all, a happy Threshold Day

#happy threshold day #threshold day #robbie duncan mcneil #star trek #star trek voyager #voyager #voy #kate mulgrew #Yes Tom spit out his own tongue #pepperoni

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cptrs · 1 year

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#women talking #sarah polley #filmedit #rooney mara #august winter #kate hallett #liv mcneil #💁‍♀

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theoscarchallenge · 10 months

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Another film that I haven’t heard anyone talk about. Which is a shame, it’s a beautiful picture. Heartbreaking and surprising and understated and powerful and beautiful. Women Talking is definitely one I would recommend. It received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

#the academy awards #the oscars #women talking #sarah polley #rooney mara #claire foy #frances mcdormand #jessie buckley #judith ivey #kate hallett #liv mcneil #michelle mcleod #ben whishaw #august winter #emily mitchell #2022 #theoscarchallenge

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filministic · 8 months

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Women Talking (2022) dir. Sarah Polley

#Women Talking #2020s #movie #говорят женщины #Rooney Mara #Claire Foy #Jessie Buckley #Judith Ivey #Emily Mitchell #Kate Hallett #Liv McNeil #Sheila McCarthy #Michelle McLeod #Ben Whishaw

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cinematichands · 1 year

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Women Talking (2022) dir. Sarah Polley

#women talking #sarah polley #hands in film #film stills #rooney mara #claire foy #jessie buckley #shelia mccarthy #kate hallett #ben whishaw #judith ivey #frances mcdormand #liv mcneil #dp: luc montpellier

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womeninfictionandirl · 10 months

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Kitty Pryde by Carla Speed McNeil

#Carla McNeil #kitty pryde #shadowcat #jewish superheroes #Carla speed McNeil #shadow cat #x men #x-men #x women #Kate pryde #art #artwork #marvel #marvel universe #marvel superheroes #marvel comics #marvel heroes #marvel heroines #marvel superheroines

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foxsoulcourt · 1 year

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Women Talking

For a VaRiEtY of reasons last week I went down some rabbit holes around this movie + the principals involved.

Navigating this experience illuminated how I want to stretch + grow in terms of exercising leadership, no matter my role within a group or community. I stand in wonder learning a bit about how DeDe Gardner, Sarah Polley + Frances McDormand collaborate. Their vision of how movies can create conversations to help shift important social dynamics INSPIRES ME.

If you are similarly interested, here's some links you might enjoy.

update 3/12/23 8:00pm SARAH POLLEY JUST WON THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY!!! Watch her JoYfuLLy run up to give her iNsiGhTfuL acceptance speech here.

Back in Sept2022 at TIFF2022 (25 min) this L o V e L y small group convo happened. Among other bits, LOVED moderator Sonia Lawrence's summary statement that what she takes from the film into her life is not the community's lack of judgment, but their presence of care.

Here's Frances at MVFF (54 min) - where she read some bits from Sarah Polley's brave book Run Towards The Danger; spoke about the magnificient collaboration between Polley (screenwriter + director), producer Dede Gardner + herself; and described the impact of Polley's way of exercising leadership on others. Watching this video is the first time I've seriously considered using the descriptor 'matriarchal leadership style.' Loved this bit (which is mostly a direct quote), "Movies are not answers, but they are propaganda + conversation starters... we're actively screening at colleges + universities... using the moving to talk about the future, not about the horrible present, but the future + try to radicalise the conversation more. "

Claire Foy in a convo moderated by Kate Erbland (28 min) - about how Foy landed as Salome, what it was like to work with Polley as a director, and more. At 14:05 min there's a sweet bit about the experience of acting with Ben Whishaw + his role in the movie.

NYFF60 (19 min) - Eugene Hernandez does an admirable job getting each person to reflect on the movie within this relatively short panel conversation.

In February Polley + Ben, and then Buckley + Foy were on London Live (9:25 min). L O V E D how about 3/4 of the way through Buckley gently pushes back on interviewer's assumption that the women character's lives were foreign to the actors playing them. They're not, she said, not at all. What WAS foreign + welcome was the ability for a group of women to have an extended conversation about a complex issue and then to make a decision which will have an impact on the rest of their lives. D A M N, if that isn't sobering!

I didn't know August Winter before watching these interviews, so found this Autostraddle interview w/cast member August Winter about the movie + navigating the industry as a non-binary actor + this video. I appreciate hearing from them directly about their character Melvin who is a trans man + learning why silence is such a significant part of their character's behaviour.

Lastly, reading some of Polley's IG posts reminds me that the people I admire most know their worth, yet a l w a y s shine a light on those around them. After listening + watching Polley today, I am even.more.encouraged to do the same. Currently the latter is easier than the former. #work in progress

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scenesandscreens · 1 year

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Women Talking (2022)

Director - Sarah Polley, Cinematography - Luc Montpellier

"We didn't talk about our bodies. So when something like this happened there was no language for it. And without language for it, there was a gaping silence. And in that gaping silence was the real horror."

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genevieveetguy · 1 year

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Why does love - the absence of love, the end of love, the need for love - result in so much violence?

Women Talking, Sarah Polley (2022)

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