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Needs a sexier title THE PSYCHOSEXUAL, SELF-CONSCIOUS MISGOYNISTIC NIGHTMARE WORLD OF BOB CLARK [Black Christmas (1974) essay] I guess. BOB CLARK RECONCILES WITH MISOGYNISTIC ANXIETIES. A PSYCHOSEXUAL UNCONSCIOUS PONTIFICATING NIGHTMARE OF CHRISTMAS TIME! CW: Mentions of Sexual Violence/Harassment, Spoilers for Black Christmas (1974) and When a Stranger Calls (1979) Black Christmas is my favourite slasher movie of all-time, honestly, but something that's so unusual about Black Christmas, as a slasher film, is that it is the film that codified so many tropes with the genre, yet at the same time it's also totally unique and distinctive and just so well-made from a technical perspective. Everything about this movie just works and it's a unique combination of a film that I feel really works in terms of its foreboding atmosphere and sneaking in something truly creepy underneath a would-be joyful holiday, but at the same time I also think Black Christmas works way more because of...

Paranoia in Blood Simple (1984) CW: Heavy Spoilers for Blood Simple (1984) [Seriously, watch this movie before reading any of this. But I think also that Blood Simple is kind of built in a way where it is basically impossible to spoil anything that happens, because a lot of is centres around how it develops more than anything. This is just kind of summing up a lot of how I feel about that movie and the utter perplexity of it.] Marty here is very stoic, just remarks "the longer I think about their relationship, the more irritated I get." to Visser, demanding him to kill the couple. Visser humiliates Marty by going on this aggrandising tangent about his broken fingers. Blood Simple operates on this simple premise of basically taking this idea of a crime that goes out without a hitch but then subverts it by showing these additional complications. The trailer's tagline comes from Alfred Hitchcock who states that "It is very difficult, very painful, and it takes a very, v...