Good morning everyone,

I saw such a good film last week (it's horrible btw) so let's have a Fem Fri about… Halloween stuff? Horror and dressing up and that. Let's go.

The film that insipired this Fem Fri is Host, which is written by and mostly stars women. It's set on Zoom (I knowwwww but this one really works) and during early lockdown and it really captures the claustrophobia and misery of that whole experience. As well, obviously, as a load of other experiences I didn't actually have and I hope you didn't either:

'Jemma, how do you feel about a wine bottle being thrown at your head? Do you think you could do that stunt?'.

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a33543520/host-ending-spoilers-jemma-moore-interview/

Here's another amazing horror film by/for/about a woman – it's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by Ana Lily Amirpour. This quote, from an interview with Amirpour, really captures the dreamlike beauty of this movie. Unlike Host it is not too scary, I think you'd really like it:

But it’s not Iran, it’s like a fairy tale world, it’s universal. It’s like any town where there’s corruption and there’s secrets and there’s loneliness and people that got dealt a shit hand. They’re searching for something in this loneliness. I mean, that’s what I am and that’s why I made the film.

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-ana-lily-amirpour/

Obviously not everyone in this list is dressing up per se, but I think it's fair to say that Janelle Monae is because no one needs to wear that many top hats. This is at the Met Gala which as far as I can tell is a party where dressing up is absolutely mandatory and someone else picks the theme. Not quite my worst nightmare but put it like this, I've never been bent out of shape about not getting an invite. Anyway. Janelle!

https://www.autostraddle.com/15-queer-woman-and-non-binary-babes-who-wore-top-hats-better-than-any-willy-wonka/

Lots of love,

Alex.