Where to find it: Stream for free with a subscription on Amazon, Hulu or Showtime, or most other streaming sites for around 2.99
What is it, in summary?: A French horror movie about a dance troupe who are doing their final rehearsal and party before going on tour- and then it turns out someone spiked the sangria with LSD, and it all goes to hell.
What do you love about it?: It’s beautiful and hideous and mesmerizing to see modern dance turn into a crazed bacchanal, mildly sleazy types turn into full-blown monsters, and even find genuine heroism in some of the dancers. There’s something that feels darkly mythic to me, like a dramatization of the Bacchae that shows just why Dionysus and his maenads were so terrifying. I’m not usually one for “New French extremity” but this blew my mind.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Mythic or supernatural stories, setting and era AUs like ancient Greece or post-revolutionary French Bals des victimes, stuff with ghosts or witches, stuff about the characters of Selva and Psyche
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: There’s a good video about it by JessFlix, if you want to get a feel for the type of movie it is and don’t mind spoilers.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Oh god, everything. Lots of violence, some gore, sexual assault, incest, child death, miscarriage, self-harm, suicide, and of course it’s all kicked off by non-consensual drugging.
Climax (2018)
Media: Film
Approx length: 97 minutes
Where to find it: Stream for free with a subscription on Amazon, Hulu or Showtime, or most other streaming sites for around 2.99
What is it, in summary?: A French horror movie about a dance troupe who are doing their final rehearsal and party before going on tour- and then it turns out someone spiked the sangria with LSD, and it all goes to hell.
What do you love about it?: It’s beautiful and hideous and mesmerizing to see modern dance turn into a crazed bacchanal, mildly sleazy types turn into full-blown monsters, and even find genuine heroism in some of the dancers. There’s something that feels darkly mythic to me, like a dramatization of the Bacchae that shows just why Dionysus and his maenads were so terrifying. I’m not usually one for “New French extremity” but this blew my mind.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Mythic or supernatural stories, setting and era AUs like ancient Greece or post-revolutionary French Bals des victimes, stuff with ghosts or witches, stuff about the characters of Selva and Psyche
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: There’s a good video about it by JessFlix, if you want to get a feel for the type of movie it is and don’t mind spoilers.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Oh god, everything. Lots of violence, some gore, sexual assault, incest, child death, miscarriage, self-harm, suicide, and of course it’s all kicked off by non-consensual drugging.