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DON\u2019T LOOK NOW: Mini-reviews, mostly horror.<\/span> I realized that there are a lot of books and movies I\u2019m glad to have read or watched, even though I don\u2019t have enough to say about them to warrant a full-length post here. So this is a roundup of a bunch of things you might want to know about.<\/p>\n

Hugh Kennedy, Everything Looks Impressive<\/span><\/span>. Yale in the \u201980s; is the protagonist supposed to be unlikable and unwilling to learn? Class resentment, demi-dykery, survivor guilt. I\u2019ve been reading a lot of college novels lately, and I\u2019m surprised by the regularity with which survivor guilt surfaces as a theme. I note that Everything Looks Impressive<\/span> is oddly reminiscent of The Sterile Cuckoo<\/span>, a college novel written some 30 years earlier. The books\u2019 narrators are equally narcissistic, but Kennedy\u2019s guy isn\u2019t as sexist in his narcissism, so\u2026 that\u2019s something?<\/p>\n

Bonus POR mention on page two or three, as a \u201cneo-fascist organization.\u201d I love you too!<\/p>\n

Recommended for Yale obsessives (boola boola!) and people with my intense interest in the college-novel genre.<\/p>\n

Deadgirl<\/span><\/span>: I watched this on Netflix Instant Viewing after reading this description at Kindertrauma<\/a>. This is a horror flick with a truly rancid premise: Two high-school losers are exploring an abandoned asylum when they find a naked woman strapped to a bed, behind a door which hasn\u2019t been opened in so long that it rusted shut. What follows is gross and cruel and immensely sad.<\/p>\n

This is a horror movie about misogyny, and abuse of power more generally, which isn\u2019t itself misogynist. It\u2019s extremely hard to watch. I found it totally effective. (I\u2019m not convinced that it fully earns its ending, but I also don\u2019t think it could really end any other way, so I\u2019m willing to go along.) The color scheme is appropriately raw, moldy, and corrupt.<\/p>\n

Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching<\/span><\/span>: Experimental horror novel in which a house in Dover, England develops a malevolent power and personality, which it uses to destroy the local immigrants and the women of the house. There are some real shivers here, and the fragmented, multiple-narrator style makes the mystery more compelling and frightening rather than serving to distance the reader from the events.<\/p>\n

Sudden Fear<\/span><\/span>: Joan Crawford\u2019s husband is trying to kill her! She\u2019s so fantastic in this, with her giant eyes and man-face and her telenovela acting style. There are some nice noir shots as well, including a gorgeous shot from above as Crawford runs down a dark street. Very easy to watch despite the relative predictability of the story.<\/p>\n

The Experiment<\/span>: German suspense flick based on the Stanford Prison Experiment. Moritz Bleibtreu is terrific! Unfortunately, the film doesn\u2019t get over the most basic hurdle: It\u2019s really hard to make a fictionalized version of the actual events which is even as<\/span> horrifying as what really happened. So despite some raw moments and tough-to-watch scenes (I was struck by the early glimpse of the prisoners\u2019 feet unprotected in sandals while the guards wore heavy boots) the movie still feels tarted-up and tinfoil compared to the visceral events on which it was based. The romance subplot is also distracting and kitschy. <\/p>\n

My Little Eye<\/span><\/span>: Fluffy C-level horror movie about a group of twentysomethings recruited for a reality-show webcast which requires them to live in a creepy old camera-riddled house together for six months. If anyone leaves, everyone forfeits the million-dollar prize money. I enjoyed the Breakfast Club<\/span> echoes, both explicit and implied.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"