“No, please don’t kill me , Mr. Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!” – Scream 1996

Second day into the second week back at school and already I am exhausted. After psych class me and a friend went to get coffee and tried not to stress out too much. Really, my film coursework should be fun; with halloween around the corner I decided to do my research project on 70’s-80’s golden age slasher movies. I’ll be looking into final girl theory and feminism, buuuuut I only have 24 days to find my sources and gather together an annotated catalogue. Eeek. Carol J Clover where are you when I need you???

The stuff I’ve found so far had been really cool though, for example I never knew that Italian Giallo or ‘yellow’ films and German Krimi genre all contributed to setting the conventions of a typical slasher – as well as of course the mighty Hollywood era shaking things up with Hitchcock and films like ‘Carrie‘ which literally changed the face of horror forever. (*whispers* but I still prefer to new one. shhh.) Sadly I can’t really include this in my presentation, but I figure the history is still good to know! Shall persevere whilst my t.v screen gets internally splattered with corn syrup and risk accidentally waking my sister up with the piercing shrieks of good ol’ Jamie Lee.

‘Toto, I got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.’ – The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Okay, so here’s the deal. I’m a film student and being a total geek about most things (not just film!) I will seek out any excuse to talk, write or even, y’know, sing songs about film.

…The latter just me? Probably just me.

Anyhow, in the hopes to help my studies out and to practise writing about the visual arts, setting up a blog seemed the best way to do it. So go forth and enjoy the ramblings of a slightly crazed 6th form student in the midst of A levels, numerous  cups of tea and far too many scrunched up pieces of paper.