1971's Let's Scare Jessica to Death added female disempowerment to its vampire tale.
A woman grappling with mental health issues, a move to an isolated town upstate, the sneering looks of unfriendly locals. Any of the unsettling parts of’s premise should seem as familiar to anybody in 2021 as they must have in 1971, when the psychological vampire tale first debuted.
Young couple Jessica and Duncan and their friend, Woody , move into an old house far from the city to pursue their dream of selling antiquities. Jessica has returned to her husband Duncan after a long stint in a mental health institution, and it’s clear from the way both men are now treating her that they’re concerned she may have some manner of relapse without warning. The hostile locals in their new town certainly aren’t helping.
Emily may fool Duncan, but the viewer will be onto her game pretty quickly: There’s a reason she bears such a striking resemblance to a woman in a century-old photograph the antiquers find in the attic, and why all the sneering men in town have wounds on their necks—Emily is a vampire, she is turning the entire town into her thralls, and she is happy to toy with Jessica before eating her husband.in it, but it plays mostly as a paranoid psychological thriller.
Later in the film, as Emily’s innocent act starts to give way to flagrant flirting, the fear Jessica feels stems far more from the possibility that her husband is simply going to have her committed again than from the possibility Emily is going to steal her husband from her. All of that paranoia and anxiety comes across through director John Hancock’s use of dreamlike imagery and sound.
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