Lady Puritan at Chattanooga, 19 June 2026 Lady Puritan begins with a nightmare. Through a confusing kaleidoscope of grass blades and petals in close-up, we glimpse two contrasting women. The first, the protagonist played with tangible intensity by Gustine Füdickar – who also co-wrote and co-directed with Justin Streichman – is completely naked, washing herself…
Angelica first published by SciFiNow Writer/director Mitchell Lichtenstein’s dazzling feature debut Teeth (2007) was a feminist coming-of-age horror which updated the vagina dentata mythos to the nuclear era. Now, after a brief foray into family dramedy with Happy Tears (2009), Lichtenstein has adapted Arthur Phillips’ gothic novel Angelica (2007) into a period film, shifting the…
Carrie fist published by Little White Lies, as entry 48 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “Red. I might have known it would be red.” So says Margaret White – note the colour-coded surname – a sexually repressed religious zealot (played by Piper Laurie) under whose rigidly controlling single parentage teenaged Carrie (Sissy Spacek) has been brought…