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...begun. That's a comment on the old days, but it also proves that when it comes to eroticism, of the true or even exploitation variety, these directors are such cowards. If they use sex at all, it is in the horror-film mode pioneered by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Show a woman in a shower, then kill her. The impulse is both prurient and puritanical; they provide a brief voyeuristic pleasure, then feel obliged to punish the women, and the audience, and themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grindhouse Is Girls, Guns, Cars — But No Sex | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...when zombies chew it off--wait, it gets weirder--and instead of a prosthetic limb has her stump fitted with a machine gun, which she uses to mow down acres of the undead. Death Proof, Tarantino's contribution, presents two trios of high-adrenaline chicks menaced by a psycho stunt driver. The women in both entries love guns and cars and don't mind using them for righteous vengeance and reckless thrills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture: Why Can't a Woman ... Be a Man? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...spend the next three years at SuicideGirls.com. Twelve completely uncreative and unfunny t-shirts will confirm the spirit-crushing squalor of house life on Thursday morning. The worse thing about your future house is that your blockmates will be there too, leaving you pining for your old psycho-single in Hurlbut. Trust us; you are more likely to enter a meaningful relationship with someone through a pregnancy scare than a blocking group. And you are more likely to have a pregnancy scare by going to your professor’s office hours than by going out on a Friday night...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and D. A. Wallach, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Bell Lap 2: Quad? Whatev, They All Suck | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...colleagues at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. According to their analysis, about one third of the 103,788 returning veterans seen at V.A. facilities between Sept. 30, 2001 and Sept. 30, 2005 were diagnosed with mental illness or a psycho-social disorder - such as homelessness and marital problems, including domestic violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casualty of War: Mental Health | 3/12/2007 | See Source »

...audience--in the sick grandeur of a hit man, a supervillain, a serial killer. Movies used to show what the audience wanted to be. Then Norman Bates came along, and Freddy and Jason, and Hannibal Lecter, to prove that we also wanted to see what we feared. The psycho creeps toward his victim; we can't watch, and we can't turn away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Anatomy of a Manhunt | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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