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Female Cannibals in Film: Bones and All, Raw, and Der Fan
Cannibalism remains one of the last taboos, a subject that will always stimulate horror and revulsion in audiences. It has often acted as a means through which filmmakers can explore issues of political, social and economic disparities. Often used for shock value in the video nasties of the 1970s and 1980s, it has also been […]
Continue readingThe Best Horror Movies: Maika Monroe, Jennifer Tilly, and More Scream Queens Share Their Picks
From the carefully considered outline of a Final Girl to the intoxicating nebulousness of the Scream Queen moniker, women are the bloody, brooding, beating heart of the horror genre.On screen and off, women have long proved an essential linchpin to the success of scary movies. Actresses have served as horror’s marquee-topping centerpieces since even before […]
Continue readingSurface Trailer: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Deals With Extreme Memory Loss In The New Apple TV+ Thriller
In the eight-episode Apple TV+ series “Surface,” Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Loki”) plays Sophie, a woman who apparently attempted to end her life, and is dealing with memory loss. However, it may not be that at all. We learn in the trailer that her husband isn’t who she thought he was, and that the life she can’t remember is […]
Continue readingTitane Is Now Streaming On Hulu, So Don’t Be Like The Oscars And Ignore This One
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a vital public service announcement: Julia Ducournau’s “Titane” is now streaming on Hulu. The French filmmaker’s follow-up to her critically-acclaimed 2016 feature debut, “Raw,” won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and earned rave reviews, yet somehow failed to make the shortlist of potential […]
Continue reading‘Titane’ Filmmaker Julia Ducournau on How This Was The Hardest Script She Has Ever Written
French director Julia Ducournau, who burst onto the world filmmaking scene in 2016 with “Raw,” admits it wasn’t easy to come up with her latest film, “Titane.”“I think that it is the hardest script I’ve ever had to write, although I’m very young in my career,” she tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “But I think […]
Continue readingFilm-maker Julia Ducournau: ‘Women kicked serious ass this year’
Only the second woman to win the prestigious Palme d’Or, the French director behind Raw and new film Titane discusses the boom in female-led horror and how she’s terrified of being booed“When I see a stereotype,” says French director Julia Ducournau, “I try to kill it.” She certainly did that in July by winning the […]
Continue readingCross Dressing and Car Fetishes: ‘Titane’ Twists Trans Tropes Into Perverse, Lifeless Body Horror
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Titane.”]The fervor for Julia Ducournau’s “Titane” feels, at least in part, motivated by a kind of relieved elation that a female filmmaker is the new cause célèbre of a genre that has historically been dominated by men. For many years, the highbrow “arthouse body horror” was seen […]
Continue readingJulia Ducournau Reunites with ‘Raw’ Composer for Pulsating ‘Titane’ Score — Exclusive First Listen
The U.S. release of Julia Ducournau’s historic Palme d’Or winner “Titane” is right around the corner, and IndieWire is marking the occasion by exclusively premiering the first track from Jim Williams’ wild original score. “Titane” reunites Ducournau and Williams after their breakthrough work on the filmmaker’s feature directorial debut “Raw.” The first track released from […]
Continue readingTeddy review – wince-inducing French werewolf horror
Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma show promisingly grim tendencies in a supremely confident horror that lacks a bit of thematic biteTeddy. The name is all wrong for the teenager at the centre of this French arthouse horror: a shaven-headed heavy metaller. Teddy is not cuddly nor particularly lovable, but he does turn furry by the light […]
Continue readingPalme d’Or Winner Julia Ducournau on Groundbreaking ‘Titane’: ‘I Don’t Want My Gender to Define Me’
The lineup for this year’s Cannes Film Festival was filled with unpredictability, but at least one certain outcome: “Titane” would get people talking. By the end of the festival, the arrival of the second feature from 37-year-old French director Julia Ducournau would find her becoming the second female director in history to win the Palme […]
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