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The 'two opposite female personas melting into one another' artsy subgenre of the 60s-70s, the 'wild free spirit helps alienated young wallflower open' lesbian after-school 70s special episode; and the horror 'is this all a dream of Jane Eyre's crazy attic dweller post-Lewton Victorian Gothic' and the REPULSION-ish "distortedly loud ambient sound" genre--they're all here. Fans of 60s-70s feminine psyche horror mind-fuckery like LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH and BURNT OFFERINGS will love, as I did, mostly, the dallying through the graveyard with their brass rubbing materials, having long sapphic gazes, trying on Victorian attic clothes, and trying to get a peek at the agoraphobic invalid behind the door at the top of the stairs, or the child's corpse in the graveyard. Just because loving these films you'll also spot foreshadowing and predict future scares doesn't make them less enjoyable when they come, especially as Calvo makes no attempt to hide them or reference their sources. (more)

LES BICHES (1968) 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) gelatin silver print still photos, USA. Jacqueline Sassard, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant, dir: Claude Chabrol; VIP. One of the great director Claude Chabrol's early masterpieces. This was a very early treatment of lesbian relationships in French cinema; although it is not exactly entirely positive, heterosexual relationships in Chabrol’s work most often also wind up with infidelity, jealousy and murder.

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