HORROR
Body horror and the gender of space and city
Auli Mantila's
Pelon maantiede
(Geography of Fear, 2000)
Tarja Laine here looks at how Pelon maantiede, a recent Finnish thriller by Auli Mantila, renders the bodily experience of urban space a matter of social identity.
HORROR
Italian perversions
Antonio Margheriti and
Paul Morrissey's
Il mostro é in Tavola, Barone Frankenstein (Flesh for Frankenstein, 1974) and
Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!
(Blood for Dracula, 1974)
Examining the "paradigms of perversion" in two films by the unlikely team
of Paul Morrissey and Antonio Margheriti, Patricia MacCormack shows how
Italian horror "demands... that viewers reorient their own specifically
cinematic libidinal expectations."