fright night (the best vampire movie ever)

if you have not see this movie, please go rent it/buy it/netflix it/illegally download it/whatever as soon as possible. it's really good. it's like, weirdly sexy, and it's got roddy mcdowell and the bad prince from a princess bride. also, it's probably got the best soundtrack to ever be in a fucking movie. i'm not even kidding, the music is ~to die for~, but it's unfortunately really hard to find. i think i got one song from itunes. if i was maybe a little more bit torrent savvy, i'm sure i could find the soundtrack, but i'm not, so i'll just complain.

here's a good example:

LISTEN

SO GOOD! right? right?? ~give into temptation~

anyway, aside from the fantastic music, there's also this incredible dance scene with vampire/victim, which i guess also has to do with the music, actually. oh well.

so here's something smart i can say about fright night:

(i guess this might be a spoiler, but a mild one)

so, the story deals with charley and his girlfriend, amy, and before anything gets supernatural, we're faced with the problems of "going too fast" or "going steady" or whatever--basically, charley wants to do it, amy doesn't, but then when amy relents and gets all sexy, charley gets distracted by the vampire that's moved in next door.
hah, hah. so we've got this weird sexual foreshadowing, which culminates in amy (a virgin, at least until she becomes a vampire? maybe?) looking like this:



whoa, man. WHOA. if that's not some kind of huge toothed vagina on her face, i don't know what is.

now, i've already talked about this consuming/consumed thing, and what i like about this movie is that it kind of straddles the line between sexy/gross. see, jerry, the vampire, makes amy sexy--but after biting her, he makes her this gross sex vagina monster, this tainted object--it's like, because she knows too much about sex after the whole vampire thing, it's disfigured her; she doesn't retain that innocent sexiness, she's become a literal monster. with a wet, toothy vagina on her face. on her FACE.

the vagina/the mouth/sex/death/monsters/disfiguring thing is pretty interesting. amy's sex is no longer hidden, right? it's not displaced beneath her dress, it's like, RIGHT THERE, huge and gaping and monstrous, arguably because of her increased sexuality, her new sexual knowledge. the vagina has also merged with the site of actual consumption, the mouth, so it's like, whoa, the vagina dentata is real, and it's on your fucking face.



alright, i think i've gone far enough. it's something to mull over, certainly. watch the movie! tell me what you think! beware of toothed vaginas!

(i guess i'll have to write about teeth next, since that's where all my posts end up)

xx

eugenia