A History of Violence: Near Dark (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 1987)
Two men get into a fistfight outside a gas station within the first 120 seconds of Near Dark. We have no idea what they’re fighting about, only that fighting is what men do.
I decided to spend this Halloween season covering big, canonical, female-directed horror movies. The fact that I’ve spent it almost entirely on movies about guys is a coincidence, b…