This is underlined byMaXXXines many easter eggs.
Bara was a silent film star who gained a reputation as one of Hollywoods first Vamps.
This throwaway gesture builds on the references to the actor in bothXandPearlas the following scene reveals Maxines dark side.
She is soon pursued by a knife-wielding creep dressed as the Silent Era star Buster Keaton.
This influential proto-slasher features a killer who dresses almost identically.
While at work, Maxines doomed roommate, Leon, watches a killer crocodile movie.
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Although 1980sAlligatorwould be more appropriate, that movies atypically urban setting is nowhere to be seen.
Regardless, the sequence clearly resembles Bobby Lynns death inX.
The headline also doubles as a parody of the tasteless ways that the media scare-mongered in the 80s.
The 1985 Brat Pack dramaSt.
Elmos Fireis referenced numerous times.
For example, the 1985 Brat Pack dramaSt.
Elmos Fireis referenced numerous times.
Despite being released the same year as the high school dramaThe Breakfast Club,St.
However,MaXXXine’s fictional movieThe Puritan IImight be the directors most obvious nod to this theme.
This movie-within-a-movie stars Maxine as a stereotypical 50s housewife possessed by a vengeful witch.
This iconic play used the Salem Witch Trials to indict McCarthyism and was adapted to film in 1996.
Shields got her start in horror movies with an early role was in 1976s rare American GialloAlice Sweet Alice.
