Even the films themselves take on a terrible totemistic power: the alleged curse surrounding The Exorcist, the widespread belief that The Blair Witch Project is an actual snuff film, the theories that surround Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining as if it’s some esoteric text written by a medieval alchemist. He puts a mallet in her hand and tries to bash Evelyn’s brains in with it — just as the characters in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre do to Sally, the film’s archetypal Final Girl, in the seedy, grainy footage that concludes the episode. It’s all a big magic show to Ed, and as he wears the clothes and faces of dead women, he is the magician, the trick, and the audience all in one.
Author: mliss1578
Published at: 2025-10-06 22:00:00
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