whitelight//whiteheat

How to be scary and evil while still bringing joy and comfort to everyone around me

Behind the scenes of:

Frankenstein (1931)

Jaws (1975)

Carrie (1976)

The Shining (1980)

Friday the 13th (1980)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

It (1990)

Blood takes various forms in the film: menstrual blood, pig’s blood, birth blood, the blood of sin and the blood of death. It is also the blood which flows between mother and daughter and joins them together in their life-and-death struggle.

 —  Barbara Creed - The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Blood is a visual motif, linking the beginning, middle and end of Carrie. (…) the slaughter of the pig to provide the means for Carrie’s public humiliation later becomes symbolic of birth, as the drenched Carrie White evolves into the ‘monstrous feminine’ figure before performing a symbolic rebirth by peeling of the prom dress, rendered as an embryonic skin, and cleansing herself. (…) and finally we are left with Carrie’s blood stained hand reaching out of the grave to grab onto not just Sue’s arm, but her, and our, psyche.

— Neil Mitchel - Carrie

Pentagram

evil like a knife

High fashion platform shoes at the Royal Ascot race meeting – June 1973 

• Photo: Théo Gosselin

The Night Escorted by the Geniuses of Study and Love, 1883

Pedro Américo (1843 – 1905)

DENISE LEVERTOV x ANA MENDIETA

‘Caedmon’ from Poems: 1960 - 1967 (1983);

Alma, Silueta en Fuego (1975), super-8mm film transferred to high-definition digital media, color, silent – running time: 3:07 minutes