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Title: The Top 15 TRANSEXUAL KILLER MOVIES
Post by: Natasha on October 14, 2008, 06:11:08 PM
Post by: Natasha on October 14, 2008, 06:11:08 PM
The Top 15 TRANSEXUAL KILLER MOVIES
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10/14/2008
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho not only jumpstarted the modern horror film, it also introduced a new kind of villain to movie audiences – the transexual killer. The climactic image of a crazed, knife wielding Norman Bates, dressed up like mommy was a perverse shock for the conservative movies audiences of the early sixties. Infused with the kind of psycho-sexual undercurrents that shockmeister filmmakers love to exploit, the Trans-Killer sub-genre grew out of the matchbook psychobabble on serial killers that began to proliferate after Psycho's success and the sensational true life crimes of crazy ->-bleeped-<-ers like Ed Gein and the Zodiac Killer. So movie villains of classic bygone horror films, the mischievous dandies, megalomaniacal super villains and supernatural creatures , were no longer effective.
http://www.horroryearbook.com/544026/the-top-15-transexual-killer-movies (http://www.horroryearbook.com/544026/the-top-15-transexual-killer-movies)
10/14/2008
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho not only jumpstarted the modern horror film, it also introduced a new kind of villain to movie audiences – the transexual killer. The climactic image of a crazed, knife wielding Norman Bates, dressed up like mommy was a perverse shock for the conservative movies audiences of the early sixties. Infused with the kind of psycho-sexual undercurrents that shockmeister filmmakers love to exploit, the Trans-Killer sub-genre grew out of the matchbook psychobabble on serial killers that began to proliferate after Psycho's success and the sensational true life crimes of crazy ->-bleeped-<-ers like Ed Gein and the Zodiac Killer. So movie villains of classic bygone horror films, the mischievous dandies, megalomaniacal super villains and supernatural creatures , were no longer effective.
Title: Re: The Top 15 TRANSEXUAL KILLER MOVIES
Post by: Pica Pica on October 14, 2008, 06:13:56 PM
Post by: Pica Pica on October 14, 2008, 06:13:56 PM
hehe. who thought there were so many?
Title: Re: The Top 15 TRANSEXUAL KILLER MOVIES
Post by: RebeccaFog on October 15, 2008, 03:44:40 PM
Post by: RebeccaFog on October 15, 2008, 03:44:40 PM
I think there was one before psycho. I saw it by accident late one night. It was a woman who became a man. She was raised as a boy in order to get an inheritance. In the movie she goes back and forth between genders. They don't let you know until the end, but I picked up on it early on.
Maybe it came after psycho, but I think it was a 50's thing.
actually, it was this one -
Maybe it came after psycho, but I think it was a 50's thing.
actually, it was this one -
Quote12. William Castle's HOMICIDAL (1961) was the first post-Psycho rip-off. Castle shamelessly borrows the Hitchcock films prologue of the icy blond temptress on the run from the law. But here it is the blond temptress, played by Jean Arliss, who is the psycho, murdering anyone who comes between her and her horrible secret. Can you figure out that secret? Huh. I'll give you TWO guesses. While the secret may be utterly obvious to anyone with halfway decent eyesight Castle's film is totally enjoyable and quite spooky at times. Castle was a huckster but he was good at crafting a successful suspense scene. You should also check out his underrated spook-fest The Night Walker. No ->-bleeped-<-s in it but its scary as hell anyway.