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Superstarlet A.D. 2000

★★★★ Watched by Lexi 08 May 2021 5

2021 Queer Film Challenge #38: a musical.
"The lost city of Femphis has gone nudie-cutie, Armageddon-style."
Christopher Ishwerwood once said that camp isn't making fun of something, it's making fun out of something. In the ruined world of Superstarlet A.D. the gender binary is extrapolated to a ludicrous extreme, all the men devolved to grunting, club-wielding troglodytes and all the women retro pinups who use lipstick as currency and skillfully navigate the rubble in lingerie, heels and elaborate updos. But…
Antibirth 2016

★★★★★ Watched by Lexi 29 Apr 2020 3

The lost souls of the exurban strip-mall wasteland drink a beer called Route 666 and use garbage fires to illuminate their punk-rock abandoned-warehouse dance parties. They survive by cleaning motel rooms, or selling drugs, or donning nightmarish mascot costumes at a local Chuck E. Cheese knockoff. The TV shows they watch are a psychedelic mélange of cult programming, vintage foreign cartoons and alien-abduction documentaries. Nothing makes any sense; might as well be blitzed out of your gourd all the time…

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Night of the Demons 1988

★★½ Watched by Lexi 18 May 2022

Note: this film contains multiple scenes of flashing strobe lights.
I set out to find something goth to watch, and Night of the Demon certainly delivered, from the Halloweeny animated opening credits, to the propulsive industrial synth score, to the infamous scene where a girl dressed like Siouxsie Sioux dances rapturously to Bauhaus's "Stigmata Martyr." In terms of genre, the movie blends the haunted-house setting (though our doomy hostess would remind us that it's actually a possessed house) with the…
Super Mario Bros. 1993

★★★ Rewatched by Lexi 16 May 2022

Baby's First Cyberpunk Dystopia

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