EVILDREADSII

Paymeadams on Instagram. EvilDreadsII aka Chekhov’s Gator on the bird app . Video Editor and Writer in San Francisco.

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Stick. A fork in 1996 already: Scream film series

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

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Evil Dead never Disappoints. (Okay I’m not a huge fan of Part 3 but it achieves what it set out to do despite it not being my cup of tea lol.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

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Stick. A fork in 1996 already: Scream film series

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Battle Royale

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Be Harry Warden Valentine

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

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Beyond The Valley of The Dolls (1970) directed by Russ Meyer, written by Roger Ebert

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hey i loved your black christmas 1974 edit can i ask what song you used?

Omg thank you so much !!

I used a song called Catastrophe by VØJ

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Black Christmas (2006) aka What the Hell is Wrong with Billy and Agnes???

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Merry Christmas! Don't forget to leave out some flesh cookies for Billy!

And maybe an eyeball or two for Agnes

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Black Christmas (2006) aka What the Hell is Wrong with Billy and Agnes???

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*Re did my Black Christmas Edit cos it needed a bit more umphhhh* lol

Black Christmas (1974) a horror film about the threat of a patriarchal society's obsession with stripping women of their bodily autonomy

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*Re did my Black Christmas Edit cos it needed a bit more umphhhh* lol

Black Christmas (1974) a horror film about the threat of a patriarchal society's obsession with stripping women of their bodily autonomy

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❄️🎄❄️🎄Don’t answer the phone on Black Christmas!🎄❄️🎄❄️

Black Christmas (1974) is Bob Clark's seminal holiday horror classic credited with kickstarting the modern slasher sub genre as we see it today while simultaneously subverting many of the maligned slasher tropes that dozens of its derivatives popularized in the 80s.

Instead of punishing the characters for enjoying their youth the film portrays empowered young adults eager to face their issues head one, except Barb who is shown from the start to use drinking as a coping mechanism for her abandonment issues and later, guilt while cloaking these anxieties with wit. but it works because we have a clear sense of who Barb is, or at least a part of her personality. All the characters are written as regular people, not one dimensional slasher bait.

Along with writing well developed characters, The film manages to utilize many second wave feminist ideas regarding body autonomy and a woman's right to choose education and a career over the traditional domestic maternal role forced on young women. These ideas shine through the characterization of its intelligent and ambitious female characters, specifically Jess. We get a sense of their empowered confidence immediately once the women start receiving obscene phone calls at their sorority house. While bothered, Barb is ready to cloak this by using that wit against the harasser, something she probably has done in the past.

When one of their own disappears after the phone call the women navigate the terrifying ordeal with little help from the mostly incompetent and potentially dangerous men around them who end up hindering the few competent male characters from solving the bizarre case. Notable for featuring a prominent pro choice subplot for our final girl, Black Christmas remains socially relevant nearly 50 vears after its release.