@@slumbersdesire fair enough, but I can’t stand that book or Rice’s writing in general I liked the movie version, mostly for Tom Cruise. But the tv show has felt so elevated, as it takes the time to really explore these characters. When what eventually must happen to Claudia happens, I was in tears
@@grigorikarpin You can't say the TV show is elevated when you can't even stand to read the books (Anne Rice wrote 15+ books about her vampires), you don't know the characterization of most of the character because of this. It says a lot that you prefer the show to the books considering Anne would have said no to most of the changed made since she was protective of her creations, unfortunately for her, her son does not give a sh**.
I think We Need To Talk About Kevin is the closest we get to male coming of rage, but it's not from his perspective. I think IF DONE WELL, a movie about the male experience of being groomed into violence by society (much like us women are groomed into being submissive), could be incredibly impactful.
i think the first season of the chucky series was mostly successful at this (the season 1 tagline was literally "a coming of rage story", so the term is already a bit overused for me by now). spoiler but the boy main character doesnt end up killing his bully, though there is another kid who ends up becoming a murderer. it still acknowledges how he fantasizes and edges close to becoming a murderer, though
@@ruliak Ooh, i kind of see what you mean - but i feel like Kevin isn’t groomed into violence? In both book and film I’ve always seen it as Kevin is inexplicably evil from birth lol and that’s what makes Eva’s story so terrifying. But I do agree that seeing male aggression through this lense could be fantastic!
I wonder if The Craft could be considered a coming of rage film? It would be pretty interesting as we see the coming of rage of not just one or two, but four girls at once, each having a different arc and conclusion by the end of the story so it feels very unique in that aspect. Also I absolutely lost it at “Dawn’s Tussy” 😂
Oh, yes, I absolutely could see 4 girls "coming to rage" at the same time! In fact, I think that they would be more Likely to as a group since they kind of give each other the courage to Feel their rage and subsequently embrace it.👍🖤
I personally love horror because of the grey characters. Typically women are the victims, never hurting others, soft and fragile. The women in the films mentioned are some of my favourite characters because of the power they take back. They become a threat to others and use their powers to serve themselves. Why shouldn't they put themselves first when everyone expects them to be meak?
Another banger of a video essay. Lisa Frankenstein is my favorite movie of the year and she is now one of my favorite characters of all time. And toward the end, however I feel like she did have some level of understanding of what was going on with the creature and her life. Because she did apologize to taffy and, she was trying to go and remedy the situation. It could be argued that she was so far gone and in such a deep need for love that she did not come around fully. But to me, it just made sense. I think Lisa recognized some of the error of her ways, but I don’t know if she was fully capable ofunderstanding.
@@sassysledgehammer Thank you!! Yeah i definitely feel like there’s ambiguity with Lisa and that the scene with Taffy could be seen as her big redeeming moment. Or as u say, a small redemption, but not quite enough for her to change. It didn’t work for me, but either way she’s an icon for the times and always will be 💜
I would definitely recommend The Angry Black Girl and her Monster count as a coming of rage from a black perspective. It's a very interesting adaptation of the Frankenstein story
I think bones and all would fit into this ,we also get two perspectives on this with lee and maren,lee is kinda confirmed to be a bisexual man and maren a black girl i would say its more about their relationship but big part of the story is them learning to live with who they are!
I don’t think it necessarily follows your guidelines, but I would call the Swedish film Let The Right One In (2008) a “coming of rage” story that I adore. It’s the pre-adolescent love story about a bullied 12 year old boy with revenge fantasies and the vampire he falls in love with. As the director Tomas Alfredson put it, “Eli is all that violence Oskar has inside, but can’t let out because he is too weak.” Two isolated kids saving each other.
I love the ending to Midsommar because it's so disturbing. Yes, Christian was not a great person, but he certainly didn't deserve what happened. And at the end Dani is fully enveloped into the cult and its mindset. She has no connection to the "real" world anymore, and everyone she cared about (except for the friend on the phone at the beginning) is dead. So her new family is the cult, and she'll probably spend the rest of her life with them.
You should watch the original Wicker Man. Same feel. I don’t think it is a bad ending for Dani. She is accepted. And I doubt anything bad will happen to her because that festival takes place every 90 years, so she is safe until her 72nd year!
I'm not a big horror fan, but these (especially the first one) are some of my favorite movies! I wouldn't say they are exceptionally good, but I had such a fun time watching them
Viewers don't need to agree with or feel comfortable with Dani's choice to let Christian die, but I think it dismisses the fact that she was definitely not in her right mind when it happened. You can see throughout the course of the movie that the cult is luring her in, just as they're setting up her boyfriend and his friends to die. Her mind is fractured from the trauma of the loss of her family and Christian's neglectful behavior leaves her vulnerable to love bombing from the cult. There are a couple interesting videos where a cult deprogrammer and former cult member discuss this and they both say that the group of women who imitate her crying when she breaks down are using a method to strip of her individual identity and bringing her into their group identity. Christian was drugged and SAed, but let Dani believe he cheated and turn against him completely. By then she was completely lost and killing him destroyed her sanity.
I think she was already lost when her family died horribly and then Christian acted like her boyfriend when he wanted to leave her. If he would have been honest, she would have never gone on that trip to Scandinavia.
I'd never heard of this term before but feel like I immediately recognize and love it! Since you mentioned adding other films to this discussion I feel like I have to bring up Heavenly Creatures. While not technically a horror film it is horror adjacent (and has a director who was making horror movies at the time) and has an ending that was so brutal it sticks with me to this day. I think it's beautifully made and since it's based on a true story it adds many other levels worth talking about (patriarchy, repression, sexuality, homophobia, rebellion, obsession, etc.)
I'm so glad you discovered gingersnaps, honestly the whole trilogy is very good where each of the movies uses these two characters to explore different situations all three are worth a watch or two.
I do think you hit the nail on the head in every arena BESIDES the innocent cop angle. For many of these films (and in real life) the police pose a genuine threat and ACAB.
I was thinking the same thing. Also, I stopped rooting for Ginger long before the attempted SA. The second she wouldn't let her sister have a life outside of her is where I started to draw a line.
I'm still on Dani's side at the end of Midsommar. She wasn't the one who did those things to Christian and she didn't even know they were happening until she was completely emotionally broken and strung out on hallucinogens. The harga performed some world class brainwashing on her and I don't think many other people in her position would have behaved much differently.
I am kind of neutral on the matter. Yes, I am a Dani supporter and she wasn't in the right state of mind when she made her decision, but I feel really bad for Christian. Dude was drugged, r@ped, and then burnt alive.
Dracula’s Lucy is a good coming of rage tale. A woman coming into her own sexually at a time it was forbidden. I would also say Jessica from True Blood, but that’s TV instead of a movie.
Lucy is not a coming of rage story, maybe in the 90's movie, but in the book, she's as innocent as Mina and had no major issues out of who she was going to court out of her suitors.
A great example of this that was cancelled too soon is “I am Not Ok With This” Really insanely good story about someone dealing with coming out but also horrific powers etc etc Unfortunately also a skinny white young woman, it does seem hard to find examples that aren’t that --- Additionally, I always took the ending of Midsommar different. She seems very shocked and then the smile happens and it’s clearly something is wrong. I’ve always taken her reaction being fairly disturbed, if not legitimately traumatized
Coming of rage doesn't mean coming to wisdom. Most of the time it's rationally irrational, hormonally influenced and instinctually self preservative. It's one of my favorite genres and we need more new twists in this genre. interestingly the genre is waning in my preference as I get older. It carried me far in my love for horror, but I can't connect as well with it as I used to. But I'm definitely perimenopausal, and I'm already over the chick covered in blood scream cackling at the end after a good rage induced gore fest. Seems like I'm going for more of the cerebral mindfuck as time goes along. Reality is more of a horror the older you get.
with every video essay i see from you my appriciation of the horror genre gets sparked again and again. Especially with this one the 'comimg of rage' which is a genre that i can relate to ( and i think a lot of women ) because as you said its due to our changing body's, that makes it one of my favorite horror sub-genres 💓
have you seen the danish film 'when animals dream'? i think it fits in really interestingly to the 'coming of rage' narrative and it's also just excellently acted, small rainy fishing town atmosphere (a personal fave of mine) and if you haven't seen it i highly recommend it!
if it hasnt been mentioned yet - thelma is an excellent coming of rage queer horror movie! one of my absolute favorites dealing w the trauma of religion and how it intersects w queer self discovery
"I'm rooting for you" in kiwi context is just too funny, I majorly agree 😂 we just have such a *mature* sense of humor. I haven't watched Lisa Frankenstein but now I kinda want to, it looks campy fun (the only kinda horror I can handle, a la Buffy levels)
I think there are a plethora of coming of (r)age films with male protagonists but they’re not really horror or genre films because then they come off as creepy or edgelordy. The films with male protagonists I’d classify with the coming of rage moniker are mostly urban crime dramas or social realism stories. Stuff like city of god, la haine, menace II society, kids, bully, Ricky 6, bad boys (1983), pixote, rivers edge, over the edge, Gregg Araki’s teen apocalypse trilogy and mysterious skin. Great video essay and topic though.
You've listed a lot of great films. As far as horror coming of rage films go, they're out there. Someone mentioned Christine and a few others in another comment and I brought up Evilspeak. The latter is an 80's B flick. I wouldn't consider Christine that, as it's a very popular film adapted from the Steven King novel. I wonder where Lord of the Flies fits in?
There's also Spider-man who first appeared in the last issue of a horror magazine and the body horror elements were still preserved up to the 90s Fox animated series and the Raimi movies.
This is a great list! I don't put them in this same subgenre only because they aren't horror films - but as the end of the day it's an undefined concept and I can totally see the same title being used to describe these films. Thank you for watching!
When you talked about non-comedic male coming of age films and showed the movie examples I had to think of Final Girl Studio`s video "In Defence of the Manic Pixie Dream girl", please watch it if you haven't, I think it's interesting for you (also thinking if they are actually good male coming of age stories). Also her "The Horror of Girlhood" and "The Obsession with Female Rage in Media" is quite close to this video essay but still a little different. Ugh, I just love video essays like yours
Thank you for making the content you do! I really enjoy your videos and particularly this one! I was actually telling some coworkers about it at lunch the other day. 💖
Have you seen ‘Excision’(2012)? I think this is a great example of coming of rage, including the disconcerting feeling about the protagonists ~evil~ actions 🖤✨🤔
The First Omen is probably my favorite coming of rage movie this year. Probably my favorite movie of the year...period. It has two ladys who exhibit a different degree of rage. The main character slowly descends into anger as she learns she's being used, as is the side-character who is put in the 'bad' room for acting out because of her visions. And their friendship is burdened once the authorities who are using them try to separate them.
I am not articulate enough to explain why but I feel like the subject of this essay is a sort of mirror to your second to last(?) video, the one about vengeance, rip, especially when it comes to the limit of what we’re willing to accept before a character loses us. I don’t remember it well but it’s a shame it was deleted. Anyway, another banger, even with the crunchy audio. (Loved Kathryn Newton in Lisa Frankenstein, she’s great in Abigail too)
@@Ooramge Yesss I see that! I think a revenge film can easily fail if the setup doesn’t justify the end - which absolutely overlaps with the rage girls limitations. ps. the videos on vengeance and hot girls suffering will both be back up soon ✨
This is just my personal take, but it's interesting in all the amazing male-coming of age stories you mentioned (Dead Poets, Perks of Being a Wallflower and Billy Elliot), they all have queer themes, queer characters or a coded queer-romance. It's almost as through the best way to learn empathy and humanity for these characters is through looking at life and experiencing joy in others in a queered way, other than the male, heterosexual power dynamics of conventional girlfriends and sex, which is typically more about power dynamics instead of empathy and boundaries. Just my two cents
Really loving all these Halloween related videos (loved the vamp and witch fashion ones!). I would recommend Heathers and It Follows as two coming of rage films. From a male perspective, maybe Harold and Maud but im not sure, its an odd but good film anyway about a young man obsessed with melancholy and death befriend an old lady who adores life. I missed Lisa Frankenstein, I'm hoping it pops up on netflix at some point so I can watch it.
i loved your analysis of lisa frankenstein because her kind of baseless descent into evil for fun was what made me like her more! she just got to give in to her dramatic, buck wild and selfish teenage girl fantasies because she wanted to
I love this subgenre! Midsommar, The VVitch, and Stoker are favorites and I adored Teeth and Raw as well. I think it’s such a powerful genre in part because it’s seen as more transgressive for women to be violent, destructive, and rageful. Also, I too will defend Tumblr to my dying breath. Where else can you go for all your fandoms, activism, world cinema, leftist theory, cute animal videos, lists of free resources, Ea-Nasir references, and strangers building a K U N G P O W P E N I S?
Being a woman myself, I have never thought so deeply about womonahood, girlhood in general but as I was growing up I did notice the way world treats girls, women of any age... It's weird, sometimes lovely, most times disturbing and horrifying... Now I am reading books, research thesis, articles and watching these amazing videos about how women and young girls have always been mistreated in human society across the globe and I can't wait to share all these learnings with every woman in my life and women whom I might meet in future... I AM OBSESSEEDDDD with overall peace and well-being of women. Just obsesseddd like a rabid dog. No shade to men. They also need a lot of help, care and empathy but women... WOMENNNNNAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SKSKJSJEKSKSSBBS😤💖😍😤💖😍😍😍💖 bb I love and LIVEEEEEE for your video essays. From one woman to another... Thank you for your public services towards women... Yeahhh you are that babbeeeess yuhh 👉👈💞💗💗💗💗
I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments yet, but The Transfiguration (2016) is a horror movie from the POV of a young Black teen and, I think, fits your descriptions of Coming of Rage. He believes he is a vampire, and his understanding of his environment and his pubescent development is explored through the lens of horror. I found it especially interesting seeing how far we will side with his character, before we believe he has crossed a line, and the arc his character goes on. It is not a traditional horror movie, it leans heavily into indie drama, but I would recommend it if you are interested in additional perspectives within this sub-genre.
Been a long minute since I've seen this, but I imagine the movie Excision miiiiiiight fit in this category. Maybe the most recent Invisible Man movie might fit in, as well
12:30 you are not wrong...most male coming of age stories are almost starting with an awkward kid looking up to bullys, and toxic males, than going through comedy escapades, to become the bully or the "high status male" in the worst examples, but even in the best examples I don't feel like they are great either. (especially 80's and 90's films) There is as you say a huge gap of the type of content from the gender female perspective, from the gender male coming of age content. Also dead poet society is a fantastic film, which somehow does take a lot of the struggles of the pubescent male and does it in a very honest way, showing how the patriarchy is bad for both genders... Man I love you videos.
i love love your videos so much! my interest are very much different from the topic you discuss but the way you present it is very much interesting even with place you are in and outfit you wear in every videos it makes me focus more on what you are discussing watching your videos just give me so much joy which is just a little bonus from the information i get on your videos which help me soooo much i hope you never lose the joy with making these videos and diving into these topics 💙
Great work as always! So glad to see you bringing thoughtful and well researched think pieces to us in such frequency! Though its not a movie, I highly recommend you checking out Tomie, the manga by Junji Ito. The protagonist is a female horror icon capturing female role models and sexism in a unique and horrifiying way. Though its not easy to pack her into a box, I think she qualifies for beeing an awesome meditation on female rage brought apon by societal expectation and male possesiveness.
An even better coming of rage Indigenous movie that I highly recommend is Rhymes for Young Ghouls. I really wish you could have included it in this, but it would be so cool if you did a future video about it!!
I absolutely love this genre! While I think it hits different as feminine coming-of-rage, I would love to see the term applicable to any gender identity, sexuality, or culture. Puberty belongs to literally everyone with different issues coming up for each person, and I love to see them all!
I’ve already commented about STOKER. But other films I’d love to knowing you think falls into this category: LOVE LIES BLEEDING THE NIGHTINGALE EXCISION FREEWAY I think you’d really dig them all and I’d love your take on them!!!
23:00 I didn’t feel bad for anyone dying in Midsommar. The old people were committed to jump and many of the students were one dimensional jerks that don’t respect a culture and go out of the way to be the “ugly American” stereotype. Dani was a lost soul and the only character that has a backstory and emotions. At the end, much like the 1974 Wicker Man, you feel like siding with the cult. It makes the normal life seem the evil one and the cult one good. Same with the VVitch. The lead in that has such a bad life, you get why she signs Black Phillip’s book. They get a horrible choice and do their best with it.
I don't know if you've seen it, but if not you should watch a movie called Excision. It has such a beautiful strange story that really sticks with you and very much emphasizes that isolated outcast Coming of Rage fem protagonist.
The last third of Lisa Frankenstein was so good because she is unlikeable. So much of what girls and teens grow up hearing is that we must become unselfish. We are oftentimes reared for caretaking roles, we see our mothers and teachers give all of themselves and wither away. They become the roles and how they serve others. They are not valuable as individuals. Teens are selfish. For Lisa to experience such powerlessness in the beginning of the film with her mother’s death and her father’s remarriage, as well as her powerlessness to get the boy she wants, and the attempted SA, it felt empowering bc to me for her to say, “fuck it” for the rest of the film no matter the circumstances. People’s frontal lobes don’t even finish developing until they are around 25, so for Lisa’s actions to be selfish and short sighted, consequences be damned, feels like a “good for her” film by the end. Embracing her rage finally gave her the peace of park bench in be final scene (which was beautiful, btw)
i love this video and the genre !! i think thelma counts (although i thought she was justified lol) and maybe depending on your definition bodies bodies bodies, heathers, babadook, or sleepaway camp? also i was a fan of lisa going off the rails because the elated ego helped emphasize her age and how quick and extreme her transformation was
Love your work! Please look into lavolier mics though, it'd make the sound so much better! I have you tuned all the way up and I still feel like I have to strain to hear you
“The Exorcist would be a totally different film if framed from Regan’s perspective.” In the 2003 Indian movie Bhoot, which you could argue to be a ripoff of the exorcist, the main character is the equivalent of Regan. It’s about a newly married couple moving into a new flat in the very crowded atmosphere of Mumbai and the wife becoming possessed. The way the women are written, especially the main character, has a lot of agency that is still lacking in western media today.
Bloodborne is probably my top favorite game of all time, with many of the underlying themes being violence towards women and their lack of protection towards themselves- in other words, a lack of control after the violation. It is also a stunningly beautiful game with many lessons that accompany it, truly jaw dropping and gorgeous, with dark twists and imagery around every corner.
I love your analysis of feminist horror. Can you do a video on pregnany in horror please? Like Alien, Rosemary's Baby, Swallow, Prevenge, Titane and even Twilight.
Thank you!! 😇 I don't have a specific idea to dicusss when it comes to AHS, but it's one of my favourite shows ever so I'm sure it would come up some day!
I wonder if Heathers (1988) falls in this category 🤓 even if the protagonist went against the antagonist (whom encouraged her from the beginning - wouldn't say coerces cause in a sense Veronica herself continued to assist JD after killing one of the Heathers) at the end of it all 💙💣🧨
Great video as always!!! Really appreciated the spoiler warning for Stoker as its on my watchlist lol. Also- you should check out the short film Junior by Julia Ducournau if you haven't already.
I may be wrong but I think there is also Titane from Julia Ducournau and Swarm from Janine Nabers and Donald Glover that are of this subgenre. Also in Swarm, the protagonist is a black queer person. On another note, I ADORE your videos!!!! 🔥
gonna throw one little thing in here about Midsommar: at the end of the film, I worry for Danny. she doesn't lose me for sacreficing her boyfriend. it would have been him or someone else. (he wasn't evil but almost worse... too light. no spine. weight, weight and found too light...) and he was already paralysed. she didn't have a say in that. and that's the big thing about this film for me... she stumbles into an environment that pushes her in that direction. it's like a current. what would happen if she didn't go along? she does profit from letting this current carry her and becomming the may queen the group wants... but what would happen if she tried to fight it? is that even an option in her situation? can she get out of the situation? will she go into this group full on and follow all their rules? jump off that cliff in the end? she seems to embrace the part they want her to play. but does she have any other options? could she survive swimming against that current?
She had a decision between having no one but an unsavory boyfriend and his idiot friends or a cult that actually accepted her and mirrored her pain. She took the less of the two evils.
Would you consider (the wonderful) STOKER as a coming of rage film? EDIT: I commented halfway thru the video. That’s what I get for doing it before it was over. With regards to STOKER, I think the ending is more about the lead being free to do her own bidding. Not that she succumbs to the cynicism of the older characters, but that her will is nowhere own. From the time we meet her we realize she’s kind of a lunatic. And the think impeding her was then judgmental and abusive authority figures in her life. So her final act is just her committing to that trajectory. Destroying an ultimate authority on her way to freedom! I think the movie makes the case that violence can be necessary. Like when Han Solo is killed, it’s because he tried to do something arguably worse to our lead!
That's a great take! It definitely is more empowering to view it as an act of freedom rather than a corruption which feels most inline with the sub-genre (-:
sorry the sound is kinda ass, but i’m working on a better mic set up for the next vid 🌹🌹🌹
@@alexu297 I have explained the censorship in the bio, it’s something i wish i didn’t have to do.
@@rachellydiab didn't read it. Sorry!
Claudia in the TV version of Interview with the Vampire is definitely a coming of rage story.
Yesssssss
She’s so much more of a character in that show than the movie or the book
@@grigorikarpin To give some context to the book, Anne Rice wrote it after her own very young daughter passed away.
@@slumbersdesire fair enough, but I can’t stand that book or Rice’s writing in general
I liked the movie version, mostly for Tom Cruise. But the tv show has felt so elevated, as it takes the time to really explore these characters. When what eventually must happen to Claudia happens, I was in tears
@@grigorikarpin You can't say the TV show is elevated when you can't even stand to read the books (Anne Rice wrote 15+ books about her vampires), you don't know the characterization of most of the character because of this. It says a lot that you prefer the show to the books considering Anne would have said no to most of the changed made since she was protective of her creations, unfortunately for her, her son does not give a sh**.
@@grigorikarpin Hard disagree about the book. The movie had to budget for time.
I think We Need To Talk About Kevin is the closest we get to male coming of rage, but it's not from his perspective. I think IF DONE WELL, a movie about the male experience of being groomed into violence by society (much like us women are groomed into being submissive), could be incredibly impactful.
i think the first season of the chucky series was mostly successful at this (the season 1 tagline was literally "a coming of rage story", so the term is already a bit overused for me by now). spoiler but the boy main character doesnt end up killing his bully, though there is another kid who ends up becoming a murderer. it still acknowledges how he fantasizes and edges close to becoming a murderer, though
Super dark times is a pretty good one in regard to male adolescence
Maybe suburbicon or Parents
@@ruliak Ooh, i kind of see what you mean - but i feel like Kevin isn’t groomed into violence? In both book and film I’ve always seen it as Kevin is inexplicably evil from birth lol and that’s what makes Eva’s story so terrifying.
But I do agree that seeing male aggression through this lense could be fantastic!
@@rachellydiab oh yes absolutely I just meant I'd love to see a nuanced portrayal of that aspect of boyhood that a lot of people experience.
I wonder if The Craft could be considered a coming of rage film? It would be pretty interesting as we see the coming of rage of not just one or two, but four girls at once, each having a different arc and conclusion by the end of the story so it feels very unique in that aspect.
Also I absolutely lost it at “Dawn’s Tussy” 😂
I was thinking the same! It really feels like it checks the criteria for coming of rage.
Oh, yes, I absolutely could see 4 girls "coming to rage" at the same time! In fact, I think that they would be more Likely to as a group since they kind of give each other the courage to Feel their rage and subsequently embrace it.👍🖤
You could add the girls walking down the hallway to the Ginger Snaps and Jennifer’s Body clips!
I personally love horror because of the grey characters. Typically women are the victims, never hurting others, soft and fragile. The women in the films mentioned are some of my favourite characters because of the power they take back. They become a threat to others and use their powers to serve themselves. Why shouldn't they put themselves first when everyone expects them to be meak?
The fact that you’ve had to bleep the word vagina proves your point even more. Loved this video:) ❤❤
@@Cinemasensation Crazy right!! And thank you 💖
Another banger of a video essay. Lisa Frankenstein is my favorite movie of the year and she is now one of my favorite characters of all time. And toward the end, however I feel like she did have some level of understanding of what was going on with the creature and her life. Because she did apologize to taffy and, she was trying to go and remedy the situation. It could be argued that she was so far gone and in such a deep need for love that she did not come around fully. But to me, it just made sense. I think Lisa recognized some of the error of her ways, but I don’t know if she was fully capable ofunderstanding.
@@sassysledgehammer Thank you!!
Yeah i definitely feel like there’s ambiguity with Lisa and that the scene with Taffy could be seen as her big redeeming moment. Or as u say, a small redemption, but not quite enough for her to change. It didn’t work for me, but either way she’s an icon for the times and always will be 💜
I would definitely recommend The Angry Black Girl and her Monster count as a coming of rage from a black perspective. It's a very interesting adaptation of the Frankenstein story
fab thank you!
I think bones and all would fit into this ,we also get two perspectives on this with lee and maren,lee is kinda confirmed to be a bisexual man and maren a black girl i would say its more about their relationship but big part of the story is them learning to live with who they are!
I'm 100% on board with Bones and All as 'coming of rage' !
I don’t think it necessarily follows your guidelines, but I would call the Swedish film Let The Right One In (2008) a “coming of rage” story that I adore. It’s the pre-adolescent love story about a bullied 12 year old boy with revenge fantasies and the vampire he falls in love with. As the director Tomas Alfredson put it, “Eli is all that violence Oskar has inside, but can’t let out because he is too weak.” Two isolated kids saving each other.
i love your essays so much plz never stop making them
@@andreil-g4t thank u 🥲
I love the ending to Midsommar because it's so disturbing. Yes, Christian was not a great person, but he certainly didn't deserve what happened. And at the end Dani is fully enveloped into the cult and its mindset. She has no connection to the "real" world anymore, and everyone she cared about (except for the friend on the phone at the beginning) is dead. So her new family is the cult, and she'll probably spend the rest of her life with them.
You should watch the original Wicker Man. Same feel. I don’t think it is a bad ending for Dani. She is accepted. And I doubt anything bad will happen to her because that festival takes place every 90 years, so she is safe until her 72nd year!
@@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 Zi saw the original Wicker Man years ago. SOOOOOO much better than the remake, lol!
Had to pause to say YES I recently rewatched the Ginger Snaps Trilogy and they are genuinely some of my favorite coming of age AND werewolf movies XD
I'm not a big horror fan, but these (especially the first one) are some of my favorite movies! I wouldn't say they are exceptionally good, but I had such a fun time watching them
The third reminds me of Ravenous in the best ways
@@gingerkid1048Love that film.
Viewers don't need to agree with or feel comfortable with Dani's choice to let Christian die, but I think it dismisses the fact that she was definitely not in her right mind when it happened. You can see throughout the course of the movie that the cult is luring her in, just as they're setting up her boyfriend and his friends to die. Her mind is fractured from the trauma of the loss of her family and Christian's neglectful behavior leaves her vulnerable to love bombing from the cult. There are a couple interesting videos where a cult deprogrammer and former cult member discuss this and they both say that the group of women who imitate her crying when she breaks down are using a method to strip of her individual identity and bringing her into their group identity. Christian was drugged and SAed, but let Dani believe he cheated and turn against him completely. By then she was completely lost and killing him destroyed her sanity.
Good point, I didn't really think of that myself
I think she was already lost when her family died horribly and then Christian acted like her boyfriend when he wanted to leave her. If he would have been honest, she would have never gone on that trip to Scandinavia.
I'd never heard of this term before but feel like I immediately recognize and love it! Since you mentioned adding other films to this discussion I feel like I have to bring up Heavenly Creatures. While not technically a horror film it is horror adjacent (and has a director who was making horror movies at the time) and has an ending that was so brutal it sticks with me to this day. I think it's beautifully made and since it's based on a true story it adds many other levels worth talking about (patriarchy, repression, sexuality, homophobia, rebellion, obsession, etc.)
@@gimmickgal4136 Omg yes, such a good shout!!!! That film is so so sad
I'm so glad you discovered gingersnaps, honestly the whole trilogy is very good where each of the movies uses these two characters to explore different situations all three are worth a watch or two.
Still need to watch the other 2, but I love the actresses so I defintely will return to them 😇
I do think you hit the nail on the head in every arena BESIDES the innocent cop angle. For many of these films (and in real life) the police pose a genuine threat and ACAB.
also I'd argue Lisa's human moment is telling Taffy she loves her and giving her the rosary!
I was thinking the same thing. Also, I stopped rooting for Ginger long before the attempted SA. The second she wouldn't let her sister have a life outside of her is where I started to draw a line.
I'm still on Dani's side at the end of Midsommar. She wasn't the one who did those things to Christian and she didn't even know they were happening until she was completely emotionally broken and strung out on hallucinogens. The harga performed some world class brainwashing on her and I don't think many other people in her position would have behaved much differently.
I am kind of neutral on the matter. Yes, I am a Dani supporter and she wasn't in the right state of mind when she made her decision, but I feel really bad for Christian. Dude was drugged, r@ped, and then burnt alive.
Dracula’s Lucy is a good coming of rage tale. A woman coming into her own sexually at a time it was forbidden. I would also say Jessica from True Blood, but that’s TV instead of a movie.
Lucy is not a coming of rage story, maybe in the 90's movie, but in the book, she's as innocent as Mina and had no major issues out of who she was going to court out of her suitors.
A great example of this that was cancelled too soon is “I am Not Ok With This”
Really insanely good story about someone dealing with coming out but also horrific powers etc etc
Unfortunately also a skinny white young woman, it does seem hard to find examples that aren’t that
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Additionally, I always took the ending of Midsommar different. She seems very shocked and then the smile happens and it’s clearly something is wrong. I’ve always taken her reaction being fairly disturbed, if not legitimately traumatized
I highly recommend the film Sound of Violence if you're looking for a version of this type of movie with a person of color.
Also The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is another one!
@@TheHorrorGuru Fabulous, thank you!
Coming of rage doesn't mean coming to wisdom. Most of the time it's rationally irrational, hormonally influenced and instinctually self preservative. It's one of my favorite genres and we need more new twists in this genre. interestingly the genre is waning in my preference as I get older. It carried me far in my love for horror, but I can't connect as well with it as I used to. But I'm definitely perimenopausal, and I'm already over the chick covered in blood scream cackling at the end after a good rage induced gore fest. Seems like I'm going for more of the cerebral mindfuck as time goes along. Reality is more of a horror the older you get.
Absolutely adore this video - my entire podcast is pretty much based on the coming of rage genre (which you're right, is definitely a genre!)
Excision, Heathers, American Mary, Martyrs (original) Ringu, Hard Candy,
with every video essay i see from you my appriciation of the horror genre gets sparked again and again.
Especially with this one the 'comimg of rage' which is a genre that i can relate to ( and i think a lot of women ) because as you said its due to our changing body's, that makes it one of my favorite horror sub-genres 💓
Aw this is so cool to hear! Thank you for watching 🌹🌹
have you seen the danish film 'when animals dream'? i think it fits in really interestingly to the 'coming of rage' narrative and it's also just excellently acted, small rainy fishing town atmosphere (a personal fave of mine) and if you haven't seen it i highly recommend it!
if it hasnt been mentioned yet - thelma is an excellent coming of rage queer horror movie! one of my absolute favorites dealing w the trauma of religion and how it intersects w queer self discovery
I forgot about Thelma but this absolutely belongs here! Love that film
Great selection of films as always. Especially Stoker and May that hardly ever get mentioned. Also clocked the Brat summer nails 👀💚
Thank you!! And good spot hahah, my ode to the girlies
I think Malayan film Tiger Stripes can be considered a coming of rage history where the protagonist is becoming a monster
"I'm rooting for you" in kiwi context is just too funny, I majorly agree 😂 we just have such a *mature* sense of humor. I haven't watched Lisa Frankenstein but now I kinda want to, it looks campy fun (the only kinda horror I can handle, a la Buffy levels)
Knowing ur channel, you'd probably enjoy Lisa Frankenstein! It's definitely campy and not scary as much as it is a bit spooky and dark.
Definitely watch Lisa Frankenstien!!! it's so campy and lovely and funny
I think there are a plethora of coming of (r)age films with male protagonists but they’re not really horror or genre films because then they come off as creepy or edgelordy. The films with male protagonists I’d classify with the coming of rage moniker are mostly urban crime dramas or social realism stories. Stuff like city of god, la haine, menace II society, kids, bully, Ricky 6, bad boys (1983), pixote, rivers edge, over the edge, Gregg Araki’s teen apocalypse trilogy and mysterious skin.
Great video essay and topic though.
You've listed a lot of great films. As far as horror coming of rage films go, they're out there. Someone mentioned Christine and a few others in another comment and I brought up Evilspeak. The latter is an 80's B flick. I wouldn't consider Christine that, as it's a very popular film adapted from the Steven King novel. I wonder where Lord of the Flies fits in?
There's also Spider-man who first appeared in the last issue of a horror magazine and the body horror elements were still preserved up to the 90s Fox animated series and the Raimi movies.
This is a great list! I don't put them in this same subgenre only because they aren't horror films - but as the end of the day it's an undefined concept and I can totally see the same title being used to describe these films.
Thank you for watching!
When you talked about non-comedic male coming of age films and showed the movie examples I had to think of Final Girl Studio`s video "In Defence of the Manic Pixie Dream girl", please watch it if you haven't, I think it's interesting for you (also thinking if they are actually good male coming of age stories). Also her "The Horror of Girlhood" and "The Obsession with Female Rage in Media" is quite close to this video essay but still a little different. Ugh, I just love video essays like yours
Yes, love Final Girl and her work!!
THE QUALITY OF YOUR VIDEOS !!!! Thank you for your work ! I create and this is soooooo inspiring 🥹✨
girl your videos literally never miss !! (also glad to have a name for this trope/ subgenre lol)
Ahhh thank you!!!
Dude I've found your videos a couple days ago...now I'm going through you catalogue...love the vibe...love the content...keep it up.
@@TheShepherdFilms All your comments are so lovely and insightful, glad you’re enjoying the videos 🌹🌹
The girl with all the gifts
Prey (I think there is rage to the main character)
Out of the Darkness
Thank you for making the content you do! I really enjoy your videos and particularly this one! I was actually telling some coworkers about it at lunch the other day. 💖
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Have you seen ‘Excision’(2012)? I think this is a great example of coming of rage, including the disconcerting feeling about the protagonists ~evil~ actions 🖤✨🤔
Yesss I have! It was almost in the video ans then i kind of just.. forgot to write about it lol. But it totally belongs in this discussion 😈
The First Omen is probably my favorite coming of rage movie this year. Probably my favorite movie of the year...period. It has two ladys who exhibit a different degree of rage. The main character slowly descends into anger as she learns she's being used, as is the side-character who is put in the 'bad' room for acting out because of her visions. And their friendship is burdened once the authorities who are using them try to separate them.
Suspiria 2018 just popped into mind. Although it's much more subtle.
i watched ginger snaps last week while sick with covid and ginger absolutely slaps!
I am not articulate enough to explain why but I feel like the subject of this essay is a sort of mirror to your second to last(?) video, the one about vengeance, rip, especially when it comes to the limit of what we’re willing to accept before a character loses us. I don’t remember it well but it’s a shame it was deleted. Anyway, another banger, even with the crunchy audio.
(Loved Kathryn Newton in Lisa Frankenstein, she’s great in Abigail too)
@@Ooramge Yesss I see that! I think a revenge film can easily fail if the setup doesn’t justify the end - which absolutely overlaps with the rage girls limitations.
ps. the videos on vengeance and hot girls suffering will both be back up soon ✨
@@rachellydiab wonderful news! It’s unfair that UA-cam strikes you so much when they let full play through of horror video games slide
The VVitch is one of the best movies ever
This is just my personal take, but it's interesting in all the amazing male-coming of age stories you mentioned (Dead Poets, Perks of Being a Wallflower and Billy Elliot), they all have queer themes, queer characters or a coded queer-romance. It's almost as through the best way to learn empathy and humanity for these characters is through looking at life and experiencing joy in others in a queered way, other than the male, heterosexual power dynamics of conventional girlfriends and sex, which is typically more about power dynamics instead of empathy and boundaries. Just my two cents
Ooo I recommend Sissy and Tragedy Girls, I think they could count as coming-of-rage stories. They're both indie films and more diverse horror.
my favorite of this subgenre would be Swarm. underrated project imo
I forgot I even watched Swarm but this totally belongs!
Really loving all these Halloween related videos (loved the vamp and witch fashion ones!). I would recommend Heathers and It Follows as two coming of rage films. From a male perspective, maybe Harold and Maud but im not sure, its an odd but good film anyway about a young man obsessed with melancholy and death befriend an old lady who adores life. I missed Lisa Frankenstein, I'm hoping it pops up on netflix at some point so I can watch it.
i loved your analysis of lisa frankenstein because her kind of baseless descent into evil for fun was what made me like her more! she just got to give in to her dramatic, buck wild and selfish teenage girl fantasies because she wanted to
I love this subgenre! Midsommar, The VVitch, and Stoker are favorites and I adored Teeth and Raw as well.
I think it’s such a powerful genre in part because it’s seen as more transgressive for women to be violent, destructive, and rageful.
Also, I too will defend Tumblr to my dying breath. Where else can you go for all your fandoms, activism, world cinema, leftist theory, cute animal videos, lists of free resources, Ea-Nasir references, and strangers building a K U N G P O W P E N I S?
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thanks for the video, interesting as always and well written !
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Being a woman myself, I have never thought so deeply about womonahood, girlhood in general but as I was growing up I did notice the way world treats girls, women of any age... It's weird, sometimes lovely, most times disturbing and horrifying... Now I am reading books, research thesis, articles and watching these amazing videos about how women and young girls have always been mistreated in human society across the globe and I can't wait to share all these learnings with every woman in my life and women whom I might meet in future... I AM OBSESSEEDDDD with overall peace and well-being of women. Just obsesseddd like a rabid dog. No shade to men. They also need a lot of help, care and empathy but women... WOMENNNNNAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SKSKJSJEKSKSSBBS😤💖😍😤💖😍😍😍💖 bb I love and LIVEEEEEE for your video essays. From one woman to another... Thank you for your public services towards women... Yeahhh you are that babbeeeess yuhh 👉👈💞💗💗💗💗
yeah, also being a lesbian helps (i'm the lesbian)
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I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments yet, but The Transfiguration (2016) is a horror movie from the POV of a young Black teen and, I think, fits your descriptions of Coming of Rage. He believes he is a vampire, and his understanding of his environment and his pubescent development is explored through the lens of horror. I found it especially interesting seeing how far we will side with his character, before we believe he has crossed a line, and the arc his character goes on. It is not a traditional horror movie, it leans heavily into indie drama, but I would recommend it if you are interested in additional perspectives within this sub-genre.
Been a long minute since I've seen this, but I imagine the movie Excision miiiiiiight fit in this category.
Maybe the most recent Invisible Man movie might fit in, as well
I can't get over the fact that her outfit looks like one of Audrey Hepburn's dresses in My Fair Lady. I mean that in the best way.
The Chucky tv show probably falls under coming of rage. It is a horror show with a queer male protagonist.
I'd suggest the movie Mohawk for a native coming of rage story.
Now I want a coming of rage story about a trans man
Hell Followed With Us.
Currently only a book, but is being made into a movie. Fits every criteria stated in the video. You may love it.
12:30 you are not wrong...most male coming of age stories are almost starting with an awkward kid looking up to bullys, and toxic males, than going through comedy escapades, to become the bully or the "high status male" in the worst examples, but even in the best examples I don't feel like they are great either. (especially 80's and 90's films) There is as you say a huge gap of the type of content from the gender female perspective, from the gender male coming of age content. Also dead poet society is a fantastic film, which somehow does take a lot of the struggles of the pubescent male and does it in a very honest way, showing how the patriarchy is bad for both genders... Man I love you videos.
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@@ei7000 Hey thank you so so much- what a lovely comment 🌹🌹
Ugh what a great topic!!! I was so excited to see your video post today!! 💖
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Great work as always! So glad to see you bringing thoughtful and well researched think pieces to us in such frequency! Though its not a movie, I highly recommend you checking out Tomie, the manga by Junji Ito. The protagonist is a female horror icon capturing female role models and sexism in a unique and horrifiying way. Though its not easy to pack her into a box, I think she qualifies for beeing an awesome meditation on female rage brought apon by societal expectation and male possesiveness.
Thank you! And yes I love Ito's work, have read a few of the Tomie stories 🌹she's an icon !!
I loveee your videos. Writing down all these movies to watch 😊
Thank u!!
Villanelle iconic pink dress vibes 💕
An even better coming of rage Indigenous movie that I highly recommend is Rhymes for Young Ghouls. I really wish you could have included it in this, but it would be so cool if you did a future video about it!!
Also, now that I'm thinking about it Barnaby's other film Blood Quantum also has an element of male coming of rage with the character Lysol.
Hey thank you for recommending these! 💐
Hello I don't know if this qualifies but I think that An American Werewolf in London qualifies as a Coming of Rage Movie
@@nannetteblackwell6214 OOOO YES! As well as heavy themes of survivor’s guilt
I absolutely love this genre! While I think it hits different as feminine coming-of-rage, I would love to see the term applicable to any gender identity, sexuality, or culture. Puberty belongs to literally everyone with different issues coming up for each person, and I love to see them all!
HOW did I not see this posted yesterday?!?!
I’ve already commented about STOKER.
But other films I’d love to knowing you think falls into this category:
LOVE LIES BLEEDING
THE NIGHTINGALE
EXCISION
FREEWAY
I think you’d really dig them all and I’d love your take on them!!!
I enjoy your work immensely, thanks so much for sharing it!❤️🖤
So kind, thank you 🥺🥺
23:00 I didn’t feel bad for anyone dying in Midsommar. The old people were committed to jump and many of the students were one dimensional jerks that don’t respect a culture and go out of the way to be the “ugly American” stereotype. Dani was a lost soul and the only character that has a backstory and emotions. At the end, much like the 1974 Wicker Man, you feel like siding with the cult. It makes the normal life seem the evil one and the cult one good. Same with the VVitch. The lead in that has such a bad life, you get why she signs Black Phillip’s book. They get a horrible choice and do their best with it.
I don't know if you've seen it, but if not you should watch a movie called Excision. It has such a beautiful strange story that really sticks with you and very much emphasizes that isolated outcast Coming of Rage fem protagonist.
I have and it absolutely is a Coming of Rage film! I genuinely just forgot about it when I worked on this script eek
The last third of Lisa Frankenstein was so good because she is unlikeable. So much of what girls and teens grow up hearing is that we must become unselfish. We are oftentimes reared for caretaking roles, we see our mothers and teachers give all of themselves and wither away. They become the roles and how they serve others. They are not valuable as individuals. Teens are selfish. For Lisa to experience such powerlessness in the beginning of the film with her mother’s death and her father’s remarriage, as well as her powerlessness to get the boy she wants, and the attempted SA, it felt empowering bc to me for her to say, “fuck it” for the rest of the film no matter the circumstances. People’s frontal lobes don’t even finish developing until they are around 25, so for Lisa’s actions to be selfish and short sighted, consequences be damned, feels like a “good for her” film by the end. Embracing her rage finally gave her the peace of park bench in be final scene (which was beautiful, btw)
i love this video and the genre !! i think thelma counts (although i thought she was justified lol) and maybe depending on your definition bodies bodies bodies, heathers, babadook, or sleepaway camp?
also i was a fan of lisa going off the rails because the elated ego helped emphasize her age and how quick and extreme her transformation was
oh lost boys too!
Love your work! Please look into lavolier mics though, it'd make the sound so much better! I have you tuned all the way up and I still feel like I have to strain to hear you
Yes I am working on my audio situation - just holding out till I can afford something better 🤞🏻
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Super dark times is another male coming of rage movie
Um... Lisa Frankenstein came out February of this year. Idk if it premiered at a film festival or something, but it is a 2024 movie.
@@CriticalFangirl Oops, ur right! Not sure how i got that mixed up
@@rachellydiab All good 👍
“The Exorcist would be a totally different film if framed from Regan’s perspective.” In the 2003 Indian movie Bhoot, which you could argue to be a ripoff of the exorcist, the main character is the equivalent of Regan. It’s about a newly married couple moving into a new flat in the very crowded atmosphere of Mumbai and the wife becoming possessed. The way the women are written, especially the main character, has a lot of agency that is still lacking in western media today.
GINGER SLAPS!!! 😂
Becky and Wrath of Becky definitely fit in this category
Bloodborne is probably my top favorite game of all time, with many of the underlying themes being violence towards women and their lack of protection towards themselves- in other words, a lack of control after the violation. It is also a stunningly beautiful game with many lessons that accompany it, truly jaw dropping and gorgeous, with dark twists and imagery around every corner.
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I love your analysis of feminist horror. Can you do a video on pregnany in horror please? Like Alien, Rosemary's Baby, Swallow, Prevenge, Titane and even Twilight.
I love this video so much I’m leaving a second comment! Do you think you’d ever cover American horror story? 🖤✨
Thank you!! 😇 I don't have a specific idea to dicusss when it comes to AHS, but it's one of my favourite shows ever so I'm sure it would come up some day!
I wonder if Heathers (1988) falls in this category 🤓 even if the protagonist went against the antagonist (whom encouraged her from the beginning - wouldn't say coerces cause in a sense Veronica herself continued to assist JD after killing one of the Heathers) at the end of it all 💙💣🧨
We love a Ginger Snaps inclusion
Great video as always!!! Really appreciated the spoiler warning for Stoker as its on my watchlist lol. Also- you should check out the short film Junior by Julia Ducournau if you haven't already.
As you are (2016)
And mean creek(2004)
I was going to ask if Elephant is a male coming of rage. Its def a horror
Even though I rarely agree, your videos are wonderful
Appreciate this!
I may be wrong but I think there is also Titane from Julia Ducournau and Swarm from Janine Nabers and Donald Glover that are of this subgenre. Also in Swarm, the protagonist is a black queer person.
On another note, I ADORE your videos!!!! 🔥
Yes great suggestions! And thank you 🦋🦋
Great video as always but could you warn about spoilers please? Kind of gave away the ending for the Frankenstein movie there :).
@@creationzikaz4836 Hey sorry about that, but it does say ‘spoilers for all these films’ onscreen in the first section!
@@rachellydiab I missed that, my bad!
gonna throw one little thing in here about Midsommar:
at the end of the film, I worry for Danny. she doesn't lose me for sacreficing her boyfriend. it would have been him or someone else. (he wasn't evil but almost worse... too light. no spine. weight, weight and found too light...) and he was already paralysed. she didn't have a say in that. and that's the big thing about this film for me... she stumbles into an environment that pushes her in that direction. it's like a current. what would happen if she didn't go along? she does profit from letting this current carry her and becomming the may queen the group wants... but what would happen if she tried to fight it? is that even an option in her situation? can she get out of the situation? will she go into this group full on and follow all their rules? jump off that cliff in the end? she seems to embrace the part they want her to play. but does she have any other options? could she survive swimming against that current?
She had a decision between having no one but an unsavory boyfriend and his idiot friends or a cult that actually accepted her and mirrored her pain. She took the less of the two evils.
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Gräns (Border in English), from 2018
The innocents (2021) by Eskil Vogt
Is a pretty good one in the younger age group
Oh yesss I love this film!!
Oo are you wearing Dafna Beauty’s new pastel eyeshadow palette?
Would you consider (the wonderful) STOKER as a coming of rage film?
EDIT: I commented halfway thru the video. That’s what I get for doing it before it was over.
With regards to STOKER, I think the ending is more about the lead being free to do her own bidding. Not that she succumbs to the cynicism of the older characters, but that her will is nowhere own. From the time we meet her we realize she’s kind of a lunatic. And the think impeding her was then judgmental and abusive authority figures in her life. So her final act is just her committing to that trajectory.
Destroying an ultimate authority on her way to freedom!
I think the movie makes the case that violence can be necessary. Like when Han Solo is killed, it’s because he tried to do something arguably worse to our lead!
That's a great take! It definitely is more empowering to view it as an act of freedom rather than a corruption which feels most inline with the sub-genre (-:
I know the movie like just came out but i need you to do a review on blink twice