Reviews: Film
Fear Street: Part Two – 1978
In her second blog on Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, Lakkaya Palmer reviews the 1978 instalment, where slasher tropes abound…
Lakkaya Palmer
4th August 2021
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In her second blog on Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, Lakkaya Palmer reviews the 1978 instalment, where slasher tropes abound…
It’s made a bloody splash on Netflix this July, but is the Fear Street trilogy just for kids? Lakkaya Palmer argues there’s much more to it, but reader beware … this contains spoilers.
Jennifer Wallis reviews Network’s newly-restored DVD release of Just Like a Woman (1966), and enters a surreal cinematic world where hippies, Nazi architects, and unhappy wives find their place in 1960s London.
In her second blog on mothers in horror, LAKKAYA PALMER considers involuntary motherhood in Rosemary’s Baby and Hereditary.
Jennifer Wallis reviews Network’s newly-remastered release of Brian Desmond Hurst’s Behind the Mask (1958), a cautionary tale of nepotism and competition in a 1950s hospital.
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In her first blog post for Headpress, Lakkaya Palmer explores the representation of monstrous mothers and children in Alice, Sweet Alice, and argues for the film as a key entry in the 1970s ‘family horror’ canon.
Jennifer Wallis gives us a rundown of what’s playing on the Headpress screen this week, from vertigo-inducing documentaries to laconic sixties comedies.
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Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
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