i absolutely adoooooore alice maio mackay as both a filmmaker and a friend and i’m so glad she’s making movies right now because nobody - and i mean nobody - has a voice like hers.

i had the pleasure of watching t blockers almost a year ago and was blown away by her beautifully vicious vision and now that the official trailer is out i can’t recommend that you watch it (and the movie as well obviously) enough. trans women are the future of film babyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

loved this so so much. creating a new communal history to draw inspiration from. we can’t just want to survive, we need to survive, we are paving the way for the next generation. spends way more of its runtime in ‘dolls hanging out’ mode than genre mode, and i’m definitely not complaining. maybe the first cinematic representation of a “girl without a dick is like an angel without its wings” t-shirt? the importance of creating and preserving community, we are infinitely stronger together. transphobia as physical rot, hate morphing people into something subhuman. love mackay’s hazy color pallet, her formal chops have vastly improved, the editing especially is much more ambitious. the dolls come out at night, nazi punks fuck off

Alice rules and this movie is fucking tits. See it.

People think the real trans cinema is glossy arthouse weepies about getting cis people to love us. Nah dude, it's microbudget Korine riffs about you and your dolls winding up in an Attack the Block scenario after all the local chasers get Slimed by a space worm.

"fuck these nazi cunts and fuck everything else"

inspiring that the voice of gutter genre cinema in 2024 is a trans teen from Australia, making movies for a few thousand dollars and clearly having a ball with it -- the inspirations here are all very apt, with some even being explicitly referenced, and it feels like what could have happened if Jon Moritsugu or Gregg Araki made a splatter movie for Troma; fortunately for us Alice Mao Mackay is wildly prolific, so we won't need to wait long for another one of these

jk rowling is indeed a cunt

The chemistry between the leads is so good that I was almost disappointed when the genre plotting start to take prominence over scenes with them just hanging together. But all the horror stuff is blunt and very nicely woven together in the best political genre film way. And it is in general just a great time. Very occasionally the low budget can make the world around the action a little thin, but this is countered by how well director Alice Maio Mackay does allow it to swing dramatically to accommodate for a larger set of problems and emotions for her stand-in. The feel for queer youth and the sense of pleasure in the filmmaker itself does cover for the small flaws.

they don't tell you before you transition but if you're trans you can sense the worms

Trans girls who make minimum wage working at movie theaters and cleaning bubble gum out of the carpets, you will be seen by this movie.

Would really benefit from an additional 15 minutes if only to let some plot elements breathe, and often runs up against a lot of the limitations low budget filmmaking encounters, but the punk rock energy is there and that’s all that really counts. The only movie you’ll see this year where someone calls J. K. Rowling a fucking cunt. Gotta respect any film that ends on a guttural “Dead Men Don’t Rape” cover.

Hits so many reference points I fuck with - Araki, SOV horror, teen dramas - that I was destined to be into this. This would have been great if it was nothing but a cool genre riff, but also lands its emotional beats, as well as the *authentic hangout movie* register that a lot of other movies would kill for

I know it's annoying for young artists to constantly have their age emphasized, but: it's extremely sick someone this age is making movies with a voice this distinct

the FIRST MOVIE EVER to feature pronouns in the credits. the west has fallen