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Horror Fridays: Women In Horror Month

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Dear Visitor, My apologies but this post is going to be short.  It's finally here! Women in Horror Month is finally here! This is the month that we get got appreciate women contribute to the bloody delicious genre we love. Whether they are directors, actresses, writers, or makeup artists, we salute them! Check out the website HERE With Love,  M.G.

CONTRACTED Made Me Want to Barf

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Written/Directed: Eric England Starring: Najarra Townsend, Caroline Williams, Alice Macdonald Synopsis: After Samantha is raped at a party and wakes up with a hang over, she notices that something is completely off with her body. She's sensitive to sound, she gets sick, and despite her worries, the doctor she sees has no idea what's wrong with her. As time goes on, Samantha slowly decays from the inside out and loses her grasp of her sanity. One thing that I HATED about this movie was that the synopsis that generally describes this movie, starts with "after a one night stand". *Grabs feminist soap box* That is NOT what happened! She was raped! How do I know that? She told the guy she wasn't interested and that she was a lesbian. Then after she is incapacitated, he takes her to his car and rapes her. You can hear her say "NO" throughout the crime. Also what doctor just uses a stethoscope and knows what you have? What about a blood test? When s...

Wonder Woman Hysteria

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Dear Visitor, I finally got the chance to watch WONDER WOMAN with my family and, I must say, DC finally got it right with this one. I think it had the right balance of comedy, action, and even a hint of romance. What I love most about Diana was how she looked at the world with such wonder. It was like watching a sheltered girl experience the real world for the first time. She found a number of beautiful things about humanity but she also had the face its harsh realities and grow up fast. Leaving home for the first time will do that to you. But despite experiencing heartbreak and rage, she chose not to fall into despair and hate. She chose to be above it and turned to hope and love. That, to me, was BEAUTIFUL! But what I appreciate most was that this wasn't the uber feminist war cry that I was afraid it would be. A while back a watched the 2009 cartoon movie WONDER WOMAN with Nathan Fillion and Keri Russell as Steve Trevor and Diana. There were plenty of scenes where Di...