‎Ragtag of Terrors! Halloween '22, a story by Ragtag Cinema • Letterboxd

2022-10-05T16:58:03.518Z

Our annual Ragtag of Terrors returns for 2022 with a focus on the millennium and the styles, waves, and generations it shaped… as well as the films that new generations have reshaped and reclaimed. New cult classics are coined, and misunderstood cast- offs reemerge as rebellious and empowering.
For fear of over-intellectualizing... GET WEIRD!
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JENNIFER'S BODY (Part of Extra Credit)
Monday, October 10 at 6pm
Oil and water childhood bestfriends struggle to navigate high school after one develops a taste for male human flesh. What follows is a subversion of coming-of-age tropes tackling girl-on-girl hatred, #MeToo politics (years before the term was coined), and a meta-examination of the Megan Fox mythos. Mis-marketed at its initial release as Twilight for boys, Jennifer’s Body tells the story of a queer-coded succubus cheerleader who isn’t just high school evil.

LOST HIGHWAY
Friday-Sunday, October 14-16
The line between two realities rupture as a jazz musician in prison experiences a world altering transformation and dives into a nocturnal odyssey populated by doppelgängers and industrial metal. Extra-strength terrifying and utterly baffling, the nightmare turns 25 with a new restoration supervised by David Lynch.

TWILIGHT (on 35mm)
Friday-Saturday, October 21-22
Misanthropic and misunderstood, seventeen-year-old Bella Swan finds herself drowning in the malaise of her dreary life in Forks, Washington. That is until a class assignment serendipitously pairs her with an enigmatic and suspiciously pale hottie with a penchant for piano, hair care products, and drinking blood. Emblematic of Tumblr era romanticism, Twilight jump started the careers of two of the 21st century’s biggest stars and left audiences equally baffled and dazzled.

AUDITION
Friday-Saturday, October 21-22
One of the most infamous and gut-wrenching Japanese horror films ever made returns to the big screen! A movie producer and widower looks for a new wife by holding “auditions” for a film that doesn’t exist. Quickly, he becomes enchanted with a spooky twenty-something who is responsive to his charms... but things are not what they seem, and all bets are off.

MEDUSA
Sunday-Thursday, October 23-27
By day, they broadcast catchy devotionals in pastel pinks across Brazil.
By night, they’re a vigilante girl gang prowling the streets, terrorizing those they’ve deemed to be off the righteous path.

THE CRAFT
Friday-Saturday, October 28-29
High school is Hell—A telekinetic new-girl falls in with a clique of outcasts studying witchcraft. As these women find themselves and their powers, they take on the bullying, belittling, gaslighting, and assault that plagues them. The Craft emerges as a defining cult classic of teenage female rage—and an ode to freaks, weirdos, and mall goths everywhere.

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