#women's movies

[bitter69uk]

“This classic camp bitchfest is a prime example of Joan Crawford doing the sort of thing she always did best. Though disguised as a soaper, it’s actually almost a horror movie, and she’s the monster. The plot structure is pure Gothic romance: a sweet young innocent (Lucy Marlow) comes to stay at a gracious Southern mansion that’s populated with a clan of snarling neurotics. Presiding over this menage is Crawford, who seems to be a perfectly charming, devoted wife and mother. In fact, however, she’s a sweetly malevolent, slyly manipulative gorgon of absolute selfishness and downright vicious vindictiveness. Her face is made up like a Kabuki mask; she looks like a dragon lady in a comic book. As for her gowns (by Jean Louis), they’re all bedecked with trains and veils and capes, as if she were a vampire …”

/ Paul Roen writing about Queen Bee (1955) in High Camp: A Gay Guide to Camp and Cult Films Volume Two by (1997) /

Yes! Get stung by the Queen Bee herself when the FREE monthly Lobotomy Room cinema club (devoted to Bad Movies for Bad People) presents this irresistible melodrama on 20 February at Fontaine’s bar in Dalston! Starring fierce-eyed diva Joan Crawford (pictured) at her most imperious! Numbers are limited, so reserve your seat via Fontaine’s website. Alternatively, phone 07718000546 or email bookings@fontaines.bar. Full sordid details HERE.

[hamletthedane]

The movie Wicked is proof that any source material can be vastly improved by simply making the intense female friendship much gayer + the mutual male love interest both wildly bisexual and lowkey down to just be their third

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

i never knew there were men in the room for this, “that was tough” oh man they were not prepared XD

[kidovna]

obsessed with Her.

[sillyliddoclown]

[yvieluvs]

July 7, 1949 - July 11, 2024

rest in peace shelley🕊🤍

[clandestinewhore]

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[starrjoy]

a movie rouge and amy commission for @hishighnesstheprincess <3

[chloesimaginationthings]

I hope Vanessa and Mike dance in the next FNAF movie,,

[phiaks]

The wicked die alone

[eleanor-of-fuquitaine]

Katharine Hepburn's iconic movie outfits - 1/?

An Ode to the Velvet Suit - WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)

[title]

Lily Gladstone as Jax Fancy Dance (2023), directed by Erica Tremblay

[edfartwhoreton]

Patricia Quinn as Magenta

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir. Jim Sharman

[yeeclaw]

❝ You know, Logan. This is what life looks like. A house, people who love each other. Safe place. You should take a moment and feel it. ❞

Dafne Keen as Laura in Logan (2017) & Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

[lecaudal]

Finally. After 4 years, we have achieved... Woman.