“Women always have to put up a fucking fight.”
While the rest of North America settles in for the cold winter nights of December, The Lady Killers are heating it up with a trip out to the dry and dusty French desert. They’ll relax and unwind by snacking on seductive lollipops and dancing by the pool on a fancy sex holiday with their hot French boyfriend. Unfortunately, it looks like a couple of unwanted visitors will be crashing the party. Thank goodness they’ve got Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) to guide them through.
Few corners of the Horror genre deal with the subject of female rage like rape-revenge. These complicated and oft-controversial films have a long history of exploitation and salacious violence that turn the stomachs of many viewers. But there’s no doubt that they also provide a liberating sense of empowerment and an aspirational vision of justice usually not available in our patriarchal society. For their first foray into the rape-revenge subgenre, The Lady Killers tackle Coralie Fargeat’s stunning 2017 film Revenge and find it to be both an informed evolution of this complicated classification and a neon entry in the annals of New French Extremity.
After retreating to a cave for some beer can surgery and hallucinatory drugs, co-hosts Jenn Adams, Sammie Kuykendall, Mae Shults, and Rocco T. Thompson will emerge transformed for a candid conversation about rape-revenge films, cinematic exploitation, and the nature of consent. Are they concerned with the verisimilitude of Jenn’s desert transformation? What do her pink star earrings say about feminine strength? Who is the story’s true villain and why does it feel so good to watch a film so gory? They’ll tackle these questions and more while sharing their love for this incredible female killer and her empowering metamorphosis. Because, as it turns out, women do always have to put up a fight.
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