Date: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Time: Screening starts at 7:30pm
Location: LongPlay 318 St. Georges Road, Fitzroy North
For our next LongPlay screening, we have the incredible Carina Hayden-Skok stepping in as guest host. She'll be presenting Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? from 1962 at 7.30pm on Tuesday, September 26th and we can't wait!
Here's what Carina has to say about her film choice:
"In the wake of Barbiemania, what better excuse for another examination of gender in film, and what better way than through a seminal blockbuster that sparked an entire horror sub-genre?
Hagsploitation, Psychobiddy, Elder Horror, Grande Dame Guignol… Whatever name you give it, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, Dir. Robert Aldrich) was the surprise hit that saw two of Hollywood’s most formiddle leading ladies (Bette Davis and Joan Crawford) reinvent their careers and take the power back for “women of a certain age” in cinema. Of course, they did this by leaning into the psychology of a deeply misogynistic trope rooted in folklore, but let’s wait for the screening to unpack all that!
For now, simply heed this warning from the film’s original trailer and join us if you dare: “As shock after shock assaults your senses, try to remember that this is only a motion picture. Try to remember.”"
Carina is a longtime MHFS member and devotee whose love of horror was ignited at the impressionable age of seven when she started sneak-watching her uncles’ VHS collection. Museum worker by day, she credits her appreciation of film to all the Cinema Studies electives she managed to squeeze into her BA. She has a penchant for dark explorations of the human psyche (both at an individual and societal level), as well as all things ludicrous and camp - which might go some way towards explaining her film choice!
We can't wait for Carina's screening and also to see all of our wonderful members again for what's sure to be an amazing night! Memberships will be available for $15 cash for three screenings or $50 for twelve. We organise those in the cinema room at the rear of LongPlay from 7pm. Before that, you can catch us in the middle room from 6 having a pre-film bite to eat and / or drink and a yak about all things horror. Everyone is welcome!
From
MHFS crew