Each Tuesday in July, FANGORIA will be presenting Terror Tuesdays over on Pluto TV, a triple feature of films personally selected by one of the Fango fam. Each week, one of us will curate three titles with a theme, and the party starts on Tuesday night at 8pm ET/5pm PT on the Pluto TV Terror channel. Oh, and did we mention, it’s ALL FOR FREE!
We’re spending tonight with three of horror’s weirdest and most wonderful women, because, as we all know, horror would be nothing without us. Whatever your gender, you’re welcome to join us for ladies night, as we celebrate three of horror’s most frightening females.
Kicking things off with a classic, first up is Brian De Palma’s undisputed 1976 masterpiece Carrie. The ultimate ‘feminine rage’ movie, Carrie‘s influence can be seen in everything from Stranger Things to The Evil Dead, and remains one of the most culturally significant pieces of American horror cinema. Starring Sissy Spacek in a career-defining performance as the awkward, bullied high-schooler, Carrie combines the hormonal horror of puberty with the supernatural to deliver the essential ‘hell is a teenage girl’ movie. As the first ever feature-length Stephen King adaptation (and the first published novel from the man himself), Carrie’s success was arguably the beat of the butterfly wing that blessed us with other well-loved adaptations like The Shining, Pet Sematary, Christine, The Green Mile, Misery, Doctor Sleep… need I go on?
Next up, we’re going on a date with May, Lucky McKee’s Breeders-soaked slice of early ’00s neuroticism which stars Angela Bettis as the titular misunderstood veterinary assistant, obsessed with goop and gore – but with a heart of gold (no wonder so many horror fans relate to her). May‘s overarching themes of loneliness, queerness and body horror make it a bonafide and beloved cult classic, thanks in no small part to Bettis’ performance, one of heartbreaking vulnerability while being all at once enticing and offputting (funnily enough, she also played Carrie White in the 2002 remake). If you’ve ever gotten a little bit too in your head over a crush, then May is the girl for you.
Finishing up our girl’s night in is Oliver Blackburn’s Kristy! If May is a perfect snapshot of the early ’00s, then the sepia-tinged slasher tones of Kristy will transport you straight back to to the 2010’s – Lana Del Rey needledrop included. Starring the criminally underrated Haley Bennett (Swallow), Kirsty sees a college student terrorized over the Thanksgiving break by a mysterious cult hellbent on religious-tinted ritual slaughter. Thrilling, nail-bitingly tense and with jumpscares a-plenty, Kristy is the perfect and exhilarating way to end our ladies night (unless you’re watching from a college campus, in which case, sorry?)
Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific on the Pluto TV Terror channel. And join us next week for another installment of FANGORIA’s Terror Tuesday.
