Angelica

Angelica (2015)

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

Carrie (1976)

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…