Final Girls Berlin Film Festival June '17 Edition | Page 13

14:00 Talk: From Hollywood Heaven to Hagsploitation Hell:
The Making of the Horror Hag
Sunday, 11 June 2017
Jill & Sara Neidorf
While roles for women in mainstream cinema are highly limited, the pickings
are especially slim for middle-aged and older women… well, unless they’re
willing to adjust their standards. In this talk, we’ll take a closer look at the
“horror hag” / “psycho-biddy” / “hagsploitation” phenomenon of the 60s
and 70s, in which notable Hollywood stars (e.g. Joan Crawford, Bette Davis,
Katharine Hepburn, Shelley Winters…), having aged out of the glamorous
and high-profile roles they were once known for, appeared in B-horror
movies in order to keep their faces on the big screens. These films
capitalized on society’s fear of aging, and posited the aging women as a site
of grotesque spectacle and diabolical danger. But before you go pitying
these performers’ ‘falls from grace,’ you have to behold their unforgettable
performances. We’ll lead you through some of the most notorious horror
hag films, from Baby Jane to Aunt Alice, looking at their tropes, their
potential for subversion, and why these grand dames are such compelling
and formidable figures of horror and enduring cult figures today.
16:00 Shorts Program 6 - Dying of Laughter
Here’s a program for those of you who like some laughs with your scares. If
you were afraid this fest would be too damn horrific for you, then this is a
program to ease you into things, never taking itself too seriously, and
lavishing you with a mix of camp, wit, absurdism, and dark humor.
A reformed party girl looks towards the nuns for help-
what s he finds is HELL.
A Tricky Treat (3:07)
Directed by Patricia Chica, Canada & US, 2015
A man is kidnapped by a very strange family, and his
fate is held in the hands of two kids.
(German Premiere)
Monja Satanica (aka Sister Satan) Trailer (1:07)
Directed by Viva Ruiz, US, 2007