💀🧑‍💻A Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club Collection👩‍💻💀
Last season I had a very simple goal. Find the standout recent films from women, spread them around, and try and add more diversity to the tournament. Ladies Night was the certain success of the bunch making it to the Sweet Sixteen and making me proud. So the plan was to come back strong in their second season with a revamped, bulked up, top notch roster of films reinforced by the best of stuff that’s come out since and the best from my other teams like XX. And then I chose to wait to draft them and the team was decimated by others’ picked. Most importantly was Coralle Fargeat’s Revenge, one of the…
💀🧑‍💻A Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club Collection👩‍💻💀
Last season I had a very simple goal. Find the standout recent films from women, spread them around, and try and add more diversity to the tournament. Ladies Night was the certain success of the bunch making it to the Sweet Sixteen and making me proud. So the plan was to come back strong in their second season with a revamped, bulked up, top notch roster of films reinforced by the best of stuff that’s come out since and the best from my other teams like XX. And then I chose to wait to draft them and the team was decimated by others’ picked. Most importantly was Coralle Fargeat’s Revenge, one of the films that really inspired this team for me and one that simply got placed on the wrong team and left unprotected. And that devastated me.
And with the rest of the team getting used up last season or stolen in the draft all that was left from my favorite team last season was Anna Billers. But I bring Karyn Kusama in from XX and fill out the team are some high profile, well received new names in Emerald Fennell and Natalie Erika James as well as some lower profile wild card picks. This team isn’t the powerhouse I hoped it would be and I can only blame myself for that, but in the end I never was interested in building powerhouse super teams and maybe this is truer to what the team started as. A collection of women who stand out in recent horror with their own style and voice and maybe they can make another run.
Bracketology Record: 7-2
2021 Rd 1: Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue def Jennifer's Body
2021 Rd 1: Tigers Are Not Afraid def Tod Browning's Mark of the Vampire
2021 Rd 2: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night def Andrzej Żuławski's The Devil
2021 Sweet Sixteen: Stuart Gordon's Stuck def Good Manners
2022 Rd 1: Anna Biller's The Love Witch def Lucio Fulci's Dracula in Brianza
2002 Rd 2: Natalia Leite's M.F.A. def Mark Robson's Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
2022 Sweet Sixteen: Karyn Kusama's The Invitation def Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive
2022 Elite Eight: Ingmar Bergman's Persona def Mitzi Peirone's Braid
2023 Rd 1: Natasha Kermani’s Lucky def Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods
2023 Rd 2: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon def M. J. Bassett’s Solomon Kane
