Spoilers below. Triggers: mentions of child molestation. The first aspect of Dolores Claiborne I want to talk about is its raw demonstration of what it’s like to be a woman abused by a husband. Joe is far from a criminal mastermind, and yet he manages to hold his wife and daughter in bondage to him, and the system helps him every step of the way. [...]
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“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.”– said with slight variations by Dolores, Selena and Vera. Dolores Claiborne is Taylor Hackford’s faithful adaptation of a Stephen King novel about a woman who may have murdered her husband and gotten away with it. That summary hardly touches this complex story, though. This is one of the few perfect movies to show [...]
**MAJOR spoilers, horror film gore, and discussion of rape behind the jump** 28 Days Later is usually classified as a zombie film despite having only minor commonalities with the traditional movie zombies. The movie shows the destruction of most of the UK population after a rescue attempt on an animal research facility releases chimpanzees that are infected with Rage: a blood and saliva-bourne virus that [...]
I quite liked the first two Saw movies. The first once follows cops on the hunt for a serial killer, Jigsaw, aka John, who’s not exactly a serial killer because his victims are responsible for their own deaths – he kidnaps healthy people with a lot to live for but indulge in destructive behaviour and puts them in traps where they have to do horrible [...]
