On Friday nights — and special occasions! — IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: It’s a Wonderful Night for Eyebrows!
Don’t tell the Seventh-day Adventists, but Halloween and Christmas are inextricably linked.
Film lovers can thank Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” for the holidays’ most popular narrative connection — but slasher Santas and Yuletide ghosts existed way before Jack Skellington hit Christmas Town. The connection makes sense. The Western world’s two biggest holidays are contrasting yet complementary: theatrical celebrations of excess and society-wide make-believe that tickle our imaginations, feed our appetites, and provide pseudo-intellectuals with the perfect excuse to misunderstand Pagan tradition.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: It’s a Wonderful Night for Eyebrows!
Don’t tell the Seventh-day Adventists, but Halloween and Christmas are inextricably linked.
Film lovers can thank Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” for the holidays’ most popular narrative connection — but slasher Santas and Yuletide ghosts existed way before Jack Skellington hit Christmas Town. The connection makes sense. The Western world’s two biggest holidays are contrasting yet complementary: theatrical celebrations of excess and society-wide make-believe that tickle our imaginations, feed our appetites, and provide pseudo-intellectuals with the perfect excuse to misunderstand Pagan tradition.
- 10/31/2023
- by Alison Foreman and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
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