Released 17 MARCH
ANTICIPATION.
The first film in this proposed trilogy, X, kinda sucked ass. 2
ENJOYMENT.
The focus on Mia Goth makes this one cook. Her performance is really something. 4
IN RETROSPECT.
One to chalk up to that small but delightful sub-genre of retro slasher weepies. 4
uring the twilight era of her screen career, Joan Crawford found herself starring in a run of delicious low-rent horror movies, most notable of which were William Castle’s from 1964 and Jim O’Connolly from 1967. Gone were the airs, graces and sense of walk-between-the-raindrops untouchability that came with the plush melodramas from which she made her name, and in their place came axes, blood and lots and lots of anguished yelling. And it worked surprisingly well!
