Halloween Special! (VOTE)
- Jennifer's Body (2009) 102
- Fear Street (2021) 33
When I was fifteen, a couple friends and I decided to go see The Ring in theaters because, hey, it was PG-13 so it couldn't be that scary, right? To this day, I reman inherently terrified of any horror that involves a little girl with hair pulled over her face. Which is great because that's pretty much its own subgenre in Japan (The Ring having been a remake of Japan's Ringu).
I've loved horror ever since. Every now and then I scour the internet, download another two dozen movies from the last couple years, and watch them all over a few days just to see if I can add anything else to my list of faves. This means I've seen a lot of horror, especially since my only limit is the type of super gratuitous torture porn they ban in several countries. If I'm gonna see people in tremendous pain, there better be a narrative reason, y'know?
But anyway, why are these two particular things on the voting block this year?
Well basically, all of this is to say I have never seen Jennifer's Body. At the time it came out I was still mad at the world for loving Juno so damn much, and refused to watch anything written by the same woman. (I was also busy judging and misjudging Megan Fox. I'm definitely one of the people who apologized when we all eventually heard her story and came to our senses). Now that it's gone down in history as a sapphic cult classic I am, of course, dying to finally see it.
As for Fear Street, it pretty much flew right past me as it happened, and then it was over, and then everyone was like "what a great sapphic love story" and I said "wait what?" because I absolutely did not do my duty as a reactor to queer things in this specific instance. I heard good things, and since Jennifer's Body is a classic I thought a little old school vs. new school vote would be fun.
Plus both choices feature wlw, and as a channel that tends to have understandable leanings towards mlm I like to give the ladies a shout out whenever I can.
If you have no idea what either of these things are, check out the IMDB pages for Jennifer's Body and the first volume of Fear Street to help you decide.
The reaction, both uncut and cut, will land on Halloween in their usual locations. <3