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...Chiefly the ladies have Man Trouble, a subject most women will relate to and most men will find chilling in its bluntness. The ladies exchange one fascinating horror story after another of deadbeats, cheaters, grifters, psychopaths and dirty old men. While these woeful tales will elicit international sympathy, western readers will find some of the problems unfamiliar. Cultural institutions such as arranged marriages, even for girls of 13, and the premium on female virginity only add to the women's problems. In one shocking discussion, the women debate the merits of "embroidery," the Iranian euphemism for suturing the vaginal opening...
This last movie features Jody, a young murder victim, as the dead girl du jour. In the truly terrible “The Amityville Horror,” Jody is one member of the Defeo family, allegedly slaughtered in their sleep by their father (who claimed that voices from the house told him to kill his family). The young Lutz family moves into the home one year later, only to find that young Jody and other ghosts have not moved...
Then, too, perhaps we were no longer so troubled by the Bomb, the initial shock having worn off. Like Lowell, Americans may have grown weary of talking, or dreaming, their extinction to death. The '50s and early '60s, the time of the horror film, were also the time of bomb shelters and "duck and cover" instructions to schoolchildren, who, like Kawamoto in the '40s, were taught to hide under desks in a bombing attack. The combination of fright and absurdity might have been enough to put the Bomb on the shelf for a while...
...come and go in clouds of Disneydust; and the three witches, who are more funny than frightening. Leading the forces of evil is the Horned King. His body is skeletal, his voice sepulchral, and his eyes glow red like coals. His aide-de-camp is a little green horror known appropriately as Creeper, and his castle is guarded by two pterodactyl-like birds, flapping, screeching, ever ready to swoop down and carry off the better elements populating this mythical kingdom. Eventually, the evil monarch and his minions find out from our friends where the long-hidden black cauldron lies...
...remember when the cicadas invaded Chicago back in June of '73. With great horror I watched the little red-eyed beasties swarm all over everything. I doubt that anyone took a liking to them or thought they were cute. Michael Franks Highland Park...