So many, many wonderfully terrible movies that when one was more or less good, you had to sit up and take notice. And at some point, I'll get to the film I will be saving, Rodman Flender's masterpiece. But hold your horses till then because I want to mention Flender's debut film, a nice little hot-button thriller called The Unborn.
Flender got his start working for Roger Corman and clearly learned from the master how to balance tight-budgets, knowing comedy and genuine cinematic competency. Like Corman, even Flender's best films are a little cheesy, but they're constructed with a sturdiness and intelligence that means the cheesiness never undermines the moments of real, thrilling fear and intelligence and sexiness and intentional comedy. Flender's films, as they say, play - and The Unborn is no different.
It stars Brooke Adams Days of Heaven - which, incidentally, is not as good as The Unborn as an infertile woman impregnanted in-vitro as part of an experimental program It's a very solid premise that does the Corman thing of knocking off the idea from a superior big budget film Rosemary's Baby 's "holy shit, does a mother love even a monster baby? Plus, Lisa Kudrow is in it for two seconds and the film used her brief appearance as a major selling point after Friends blew up a couple years later. Flender has settled into a life of tv work, at this point: The Unborn and Leprechaun 2 form the bread of a direct-to-video sandwich in which In The Heat of Passion is the spicy chicken patty.
It's a great movie. I know you will never believe.
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But that's the sad fact: It's a direct-to-video erotic thriller driven by many torrid, excessive sex scenes featuring a shameless Sally Kirkland. The plot is great: He manages to land a somewhat demeaning acting gig portraying a rapist in the crime re-enactments on an "America's Most Wanted" style "bring 'em to justice" show.
And, then, everywhere he goes, people keep mistaking him for the actual rapist. Eventually, he ends up working on the car of Ms. Sally Kirkland, a busty housewife in a miserable marriage. She recognizes him as the rapist and is turned on. She seduces him, he gets caught up in the whole and at one point of course he impersonates a cable tv repairman and they get it on, on the tv while her oblivious husband hangs out downstairs.
It's actually a great, sexy, funny, weird scene that culminates in the type of explosive, intense fucking that say, Double Indemnity , would have to imply. Kirkland is hot as shit and rails him like a train. So, you can understand when he gets suckered by the next part of her plan: You see, she thinks he's a highly wanted criminal with nothing to lose, already on the block for several life sentences, why wouldn't he add the murder of a scummy, deserving wife-beater to the mix? It's a perfect film noir set-up and what makes the film truly brilliant is how it uses the prerequisite softcore elements to its advantage: The graphic, hot sex scenes make the point in a way that innuendo never could: Flender is able to create and actor Nick Corri to portray a character unlike anything we've ever seen in film noir because they are able to be more direct, more raw and funnier about the situation.
I'm not making a case for directness over innuendo or creating a "this vs. Isn't that the definition of artistry, for God's sake? And the actor prepares for his rapist audition by reciting lines from The Unborn. This movie is awesome. The sad thing is, this warehouse fire didn't need to happen to destroy the evidence of ITHOP 's greatness. It was never even released on dvd. It missed the dvd era, which is now all but over, and there's very little reason to think that it will make it into the blu-ray era.
I still hold out hopes that the "Video Store in your TV! We'll have to wait and see. I find it hard to believe that 35mm prints of it ever existed. By , she was doing a cameo as a sexy gypsy in a horror omnibus film by Romero and Argento. Collection that includes a short novel The Mist , two poems, and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. Takes place in Castle Rock, Maine. The Last Castle Rock Story New to the town of Castle Rock, shopkeeper Leland Gaunt offers the townfolk their dreams and desires, taking perverse pleasure in seeing how much they are willing to pay.
The Dark Half Cycle of the Werewolf ; with Berni Wrightson: The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat.
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The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom. Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. Large colour and black-and-white illustrations. When rough sex in a Maine summerhoue between Jessie and Gerald Burlingame turns deadly, leaving Gerald dead and Jessie handcuffed to the bed, it sets in motion a terrifying and psychologically twisted 28 hours.
Forced by overwhelming evidence to confess her life of crime, Dolores Claiborne, foul-tempered resident of Maine's Little Tall Island, describes how her disintegrating marriage years before caused her heart to turn murderous. Ralph Roberts can't fall asleep--but he's still having nightmares. He used to be an ordinary guy, until insomnia robbed him of sleep.
Now he's no longer ordinary; he can see horrible things happening to people of Derry, Maine. Bag of Bones Grieving year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan returns to Sara Laughs, the summer house on the Maine lake he shared with his wife, Jo, who died suddenly 4 years ago. He finds that the town has changed as a millionaire twist the town to his ends: Storm of the Century The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different.
Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something worse. Just as the first flakes begin to fall, Martha Clarendon, one of Little Tall Island's oldest residents, suffers an unspeakably violent death. While her blood dries, Andre Linoge, the man responsible, sits calmly in Martha's easy chair holding his cane topped with a silver wolf's head.
Hearts in Atlantis Five interconnected narratives deeply rooted in the sixties and haunted by the Vietnam War. The title story is told by Pete Riley, a freshman at the University of Maine, who with his friends has become obsessed with the card game Hearts. Many jeopardize their grades and thus their scholarships as a result, but the real threat is greater than flunking out; in , leaving school means being drafted to Vietnam.
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Riding the Bullet ; ebook: Takes place in Maine, where college student Alan Parker gets a phone call that his mother just had a stroke and is in the hospital. Hitchiking home to her, Alan runs into trouble Takes place in Derry. Four childhood friends, each laboring under the burden of their own midlife crisis, agree to take their annual hunting trip to the north Maine woods. Though one of the friends has always been slightly telepathic, infection by the aliens has the side effect of enhancing mind-reading ability in humans. The story becomes a race to prevent the aliens from conquering Earth by viral contamination of the water supply.
Under the Dome The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. A haunting novel about love against all odds, set in the fictional town of Nodd's Ridge, Maine. They never should have known each other. Torie Christopher was a member of the Maine aristocracy, reckless and willful, wed to a blue-blooded doctor, and enjoying all the pleasures and privileges of wealth and position.
Joe Nevers was of the working class, married to a woman determined to keep him in his place, and with only his rock-hard strength and unbending pride to depend on for dignity. Now, in a night filled with all the phantoms of the past and all the shifting shapes of love, Torie and Joe have to strip bare the truth about themselves and their lives, for they share secrets no one else knows. The Trap , published in the U. Pat and Olivia have it all: Unfortunately, the marriage seems to be falling apart. Liv takes their young son to their summer home in the dead of winter to relax and think things over, little knowing that they are in for a terrifying fight for survival against unspeakable wickedness.
A violent love triangle in a small Maine town. Pearl Dickenson arrives in tiny Nodd's Ridge, Maine, to claim an inheritance and lead a quiet life. But soon, exotic Pearl threatens the fabric of everyday life in Nodd's Ridge as she becomes involved with two attractive, very different men, whose seething rivalry explodes into violence. One on One Coming-of-age story on and off the basketball court, of sexual initiation and an awakening into love.
The Book of Reuben Reuben Styles, a peripheral player in King's earlier novels, becomes an adult, takes over a local filling station, marries the girl he's loved since they were both teenagers, and fathers three children. Although mired in a marriage that even the improbably patient and long-suffering Reuben recognizes as a disaster, he's totally unprepared for Laura's vindictive behavior when she asks for a divorce.
Other books by Tabitha King set in Maine: The story of a nerdy genius who invents a device that can shrink people to six inches tall. When a beautiful television anchor is shrunk and made to live in a doll house, not only does she have to deal with the consequences of being so tiny, she also has to endure the psychological and sexual terror of the genius's evil accomplice.
This book builds on the characters created in One On One. An offbeat, spike-haired, but lovable college student falls in love with the university's star athlete. They both have personal demons to overcome in finding their way to each other and their work. Maine natives will recognize the city of Bangor and the University of Maine at Orono as the setting. Mind Over Murder Meanwhile, the store's number-one employee, Molly, has made no secret of her anger over Ana's antics. So when Ana is found dead, killed by the bust of Edgar Allen Poe sculpted by Molly, the evidence is stacked against her.
Clara must rely on her gift to make sense of this senseless murder. New Yorker Angela Russo takes a chance and moves to Maine in search of love and life as it should be. YA or adult novel about two orphans: The Boy Came Back Story of what happened in a small Maine town when the town's bad boy comes back after an absence of ten years. The townspeople worried about what the boy would do to Rockport Falls, but it was what Rockport Falls did to the boy that led to violence.
The loves, the hates, the alliances and misalliances that develop among the native fishermen and the summer millionaires on a Maine coast island. Doctor tells his story of how he and his dog, Slob, live on remote Juniper island off the coast of Maine 10 weeks of the year. Mystery, featuring lesbian private investigator Lil Ritchie.
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Set in Portland, Maine. Lil Ritchie investigates the disappearance of a jazz guitarist. A Novel of 19th Century Maine Engaging story of three women on the Maine frontier: Maude Richmond Webber, a midwife whose tradition is being threatened by physicians; redheaded Fanny Hogan, who becomes mistress of a Bangor bordello; and Elizabeth Emerson, Fanny's illegitimate daughter who learns her identity through tragic circumstances. The story begins with the British Occupation of and is set against the backdrop of temperance crusades, emerging statehood, and the explosive economic and political importance of Bangor, Maine.
In rural Maine, a bear finds a manuscript, borrows clothes and food from a local store, and goes to the big city to seek fame and fortune as a novelist. Mystery set on an island near Damariscotta. A wealthy and well-known artist settles on family land on Damariscove to find a new life after a mysterious boat explosion kills his wife and best friends. Set around the two rocky isles east of Fisherman's Island. The body of a young woman, decorated with shells, is found on a Florida beach and clues lead investigators to Maine.
Battles of Destiny series, 6. As teenagers, Shane and Ashley promise to love each other forever. But when Ashley's parents return to Ireland and take their daughter with them, the sweethearts sadly bid each other farewell. Both find other loves and marry. When Ashley eventually returns to Maine, the friendship between the two is rekindled. But even as old friends reunite, the seeds of tragedy grow in their lives, in the forms of illness and war.
Can love overcome sorrow? A grieving writer moves into an abandoned home in northern Maine where a top physicist had been conducting and experiment to bring his dead daughter back to live. Author lives in Lewiston. Gothic horror novel set in Maine.
Grim novel of insane experiments, murder, blood drinkers, and hexes. An ice storm paralyzes a small Maine town and Sheriff David Peck is faced with a series of murders. Ben Truman is police chief of tiny Versailles, Maine. The action takes place after Ben discovers the bloated body of a Boston Asst. District Attorney in a deserted cabin out by the lake. The book is set in both fictitious Versailles, and in fictitious Mission Flats, a run-down drug-infested area near Boston.
The book is fictional, but based on an actual event involving a coastal Maine pleasure cruise that went horribly awry. Setting out from Bailey Island in June , a top-heavy tour boat was packed with thirty-six picnickers from Rumford, Maine. The boat disappeared into a thick fog and was never seen again. The only clues it left behind were the bodies of a dozen female passengers and the male captain, pulled from Casco Bay several days later. A Gray Phantom mystery set in Maine. The Owl's Warning Pulp mystery novel set in Maine. Death Under Tall Pines: A Maine Mystery Did a falling tree or a bullet kill a vacationer on a fishing trip in the Maine wilderness?
Death on the Rocks Murder mystery set in the Moosehead Lake region, A frozen body is found in a hunting lodge and a victim vanishes without leaving any footprints in the snow. Retired priest Father Timothy O'Toole helps investigate. A plague threatens the affluent fictional community of Corpus Christi, Maine.
Meeting in a gay bar in Boston, a group of lesbians form bonds and develop mutual interests that lead them to Maine. In the midst of a pitiless winter in Rufford, Maine - a town deeply scarred by America's recent, bloody war of revolution - a young wife and mother has been raped and murdered in her own home. The savage crime draws midwife Hannah Trevor into an investigation that could destroy everything and everyone she loves. A Novel of Historical Suspense A tale set in Maine, A sequence of terrible murders rocks the town of Rufford as the widowed midwife Hannah fights to keep her 8-year-old daughter.
The Burning Bride In , the townsfolk of Rufford, Maine are having their annual military celebration, which is interrupted by the death of the town's so-called surgeon, who is found with a bullet to his head and chest, and his feet burned. The novel concerns fly-fishing, hunting, and the unlikely friendship between professor Brant Healey and Louis, an unlettered, superstitious woodsman. Brie Beaumont has taken a leave from the Minnesota Police Department.
Suffering from post-traumatic stress after her partner is killed, she has gone to Maine, a place that holds fond memories from her childhood. Caught in a gale, they anchor off remote and windswept Granite Island. When someone aboard is murdered, Brie must single-handedly stage an investigation that moves from the ship to a small fishing village on the island.
The fictional tourist town of Archers Beach in Maine hosts a war of faerie magic in this engaging fantasy. Tracy James mystery series. Tracy James leaves her contented life in Florida to become involved in a mind-controlling cult in Maine and to learn why an old family friend's lobster business is being sabotaged. Could also be suitable for young adults.
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Detective story, set primarily in New York City, but the denouement takes place in Maine, complete with fishermen, urchin divers and Down East accents. Features Lionel Essrog, a detective with Tourette's syndrome, who tracks down the killer of his boss, Frank Minna. A young woman from Connecticut finds her first teaching job in Franklin, Maine, and also finds romance with the school's head custodian, who has fled to Maine following a career crisis. When Abigail Pugh is charged with murder after a Mount Desert camp fire, she insists that young attorney Danny Hardy handle her case.
Short stories about Eastern Maine. Supermodel Marty intends to expose the Millbrook ME Chief of Police as the leering, conniving womanizer she remembers from high school. At a small-time carnival on the outskirts of Baltimore, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne, but are actually sent by Carlos, the Jackal. What these two men share is the closely guarded secret of Jason Bourne's true identity; Bourne is really David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband and father of two children, now nearing his fiftieth birthday and living on a remote campus in Maine.
Hunting and fishing stories of the Maine woods, featuring one of the all-time great characters of sporting literature, the fictional Dud Dean. Under a Willow Tree Dud Dean stories about angling, hunting and camping in the wilds of Maine. Collection of anecdotes by popular mid-century Maine chronicler. Natalie's career start as an innkeeper on Cranberry Island, Maine, coincides with developer Bernard Katz's plans to build a big golf course on an endangered tern colony next door with her inn as its parking lot.
Of course when Katz is found dead at the base of a cliff, the police turn their attention to someone who had a lot to lose if Katz's plans were to come to fruition -- Natalie. Dead and Berried Heading out to pick cranberries one autumn morning, Natalie stumbles across the body of her part-time helper with a gunshot wound to the chest.
To complicate things, he ex-fiance comes to town, significantly cooling her budding relationship with the handsome guy next door. Murder Most Maine A Peter Shandy mystery. A dastardly gang of rogues is sneaking around Balaclava county Mass. Helen Shandy, a librarian, travels to Sasquamahoc, Maine, to protect another priceless vane, and while there goes on a whale watching tour, which is hijacked by the vane snatchers. The Gladstone Bag A Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn mystery.
Setting is an isolated summer place on Pocapuk Island, Maine. Something in the Water Professor Peter Shandy, New England's homegrown Hercule Poirot, has journeyed to the Maine coast in search of a mystery flower-and to escape his wife's all female house party. Now, supping at a country inn, he witnesses sudden death as a town bully keels over into his chicken pot pie. Is it fowl play? Exit the Milkman The Shandys house guest, on her way home to Maine from Balaclava, discovers the Shandys' missing neighbour in a wrecked Lincoln Town Car. The Connelly family is in trouble.
Ruth is a Boston lawyer in a high-powered job. Her husband Paul, a professor, is beginning to drink too much. Both have been unfaithful. Their daughter, Josie, is going through a hostile and difficult adolescence. Then Josie drowns in a boating accident while they're on vacation, and the family falls apart even further.
But when their son and only surviving child contracts cancer, Ruth and Paul are drawn back together -- only to be tested one more time by another crisis. Partially set in Maine. Masters of Midnight Comprised of four novellas -- set in Maine, Arkansas, San Francisco, and West Virginia -- in which vampires play a prominent and erotically gay role. Jeremy thinks the story will make a good human-interest piece, but he also has a personal stake in the story as one of the vanished was his father' [from Harriet Klausner review].
An Anthology of Maine Literature A collection of classic and contemporary fiction, nonfiction and poetry, by Maine writers. About a middle-aged widow, her otherworldly ten-year-old granddaughter, and a gay couple confronting their demons, whose lives intertwine on the coast of Maine MANNS, Robert The Maine Quartet and other one-act plays.
The woods of Aroostook County, Piscataquis County, and Lake Megunticook provide the settings for the plays and monologues in this volume. Set in the late s, a story about a year-old boy living on an island off the coast of Maine with his parents and his struggles to enter adulthood. Darkly comic suspense thriller. Dewey and his pregnant wife, Judith, are spending a relaxing summer on small, unpopulated Cranberry Island in Maine. The many strange and surreal events unfolding about their isolated cottage keep turning ever more ominous until disaster strikes.
Poems for Young Feminists. We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch. For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair like treasure on the ground; the Midas light turning your limbs to gold. Time slows, for here we are millionaires, backhanding the night. Time hates love, wants love poor, but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
The straight-forwardness of her poetry is very appealing to me, who missed out on studying any English literature beyond the age of 16, due to a rather inflexible education system. And there are stars, but none of you, to spare. Because the world revolves around me: This list is amazing, and I have yet to check out about a third of it, so thanks, AS, I love you as always!
Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. Because I must keep the spirit of my revolt and myself alive. I like this idea! Every single time that trust pays off and I discover something like Andrea Gibson, who makes my heart hurt in the most amazing way.
So, thanks Autostraddle for talking about things I love, even before I love them. My inner nerd humbly thanks you for this awesome post. I love poetry… words make me happy and smiley on the inside. Love this and I wholeheartedly agree with the women on this list! Are there any transgender poets out there? Andrea Gibson lights up all the darkest parts of me. Great list you guys!
Maybe once a month? Like Team Recommends, but poems, yanno? Reading Mary Oliver aloud in bed is almost as good, though, and someday someone will appreciate my nutty word needs. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan is a lesbian! Thank you for the link to that article by Kay Ryan. You must know Carol Ann Duffy? Here is one of my favourites —. There were flowers at the edge of the forest, cupping The last of the light in their upturned petals. I followed you in, Under the sighing, restless trees and my whole life vanished.
The moon tossed down its shimmering cloth. We undressed, then dressed again in the gowns of the moon. We knelt in the leaves, kissed, kissed; new words rustled nearby and we swooned. Thorns on my breasts, rain in my mouth, loam on my bare feet, rough Bark grazing my back, I moaned for them all. You stood, waist deep, In a stream, pulling me in, so I swam. You were the water, the wind In the branches wringing their hands, the heavy, wet perfume of soil. Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon. Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad? In one of the tenses I am singing an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear. I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you. For I am in love with you and this. What do you all think about this? Some bits and pieces: Audre Lorde — In addition to being a poet, Audre Lorde is a mega-important feminist and activist who was at the forefront of a new group of politically active women of all colors challenging the white middle-class hegemony and subsequent ethnocentric goals of s feminism.
But I who am bound by my mirror as well as my bed see causes in color as well as sex and sit here wondering which me will survive all these liberations.