Notes
“Sometimes It Doesn’t Get Better”
In discussing Astron-6’s horror movie, Father’s Day, Dave Pace notes that what seems to make viewers uncomfortable is not the violence but the nudity, the male nudity. “What I don’t understand is the uncomfortable shifting around and the outright revulsion you will hear for the scenes where you just see regular naked men. I also utterly fail to grasp why the man on man rape in this movie is considered more shocking or brutal–and therefore worthy of special warnings –than the rape of a woman.” Pace also talks with members of Astron-6, a Winnipeg-based filmmaking collective.
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Tagged as: 2010s, Astron-6, blood, Canada, gender, holidays, homophobia, horror, interviews, LGBTQ, Manitoba, masculinity, movies, Queerness, rape, sexism, slashers, Winnipeg
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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