I Came For Fire, I Stayed For Love [Spoilers Abound]

[handful_ofdust]

So...I finally saw The Blackcoat's Daughter, otherwise known as February, aka Oz Perkins's first film--a possession story told backwards and sidelong, in hindsight, from the outside in. I had to do it online, streaming it from a site, which annoys me; I'd like to vote with my wallet as much as I can in these matters, and the fact that TBD has been

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[sovay]

While we, the audience, are left alone with her in the dark, the chill, with blood frozen stiff on our frost-bitten hands.

YAY YOU SAW THIS MOVIE I AM SO GLAD I LOVED IT SO MUCH I THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE IT WHY DID IT NOT GET A PROPER RELEASE WHY IS IT NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD WHY CAN'T I BUY THE SOUNDTRACK DAMMIT YAY.

[handful_ofdust]

DAMN GOOD QUESTION ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK YES.

Yeah, I enjoyed most of what I saw, so much so that I would really, really like the chance to watch it again and pay more attention to stuff in the background, the stuff layered dark on dark. Subtitles would have also helped, because I am old.;)

[sovay]

DAMN GOOD QUESTION ABOUT THE SOUNDTRACK YES.

I actually wrote to Elvis Perkins' website, but it produced no result. Maybe I'll try again if it ever gets out of release date hell and into theaters where you would definitely get a better look at the dark-on-dark. I found it surprisingly visually beautiful, but I do not think it would benefit from a small screen at all.

[asakiyume]

Haha--I was reading this and very quickly thought, "heeyyyy.... is this a movie Sovay has written about, because I'm getting déjà vu... and clearly it is, and now I'm remembering that post.

[asakiyume]

This is great-- love getting your take on it. You know I watch movies mainly by reading other folks' reviews of them, so ;-)

performing a song obviously written by Elvis Perkins --lol

[handful_ofdust]

I'd actually love to know what that song was, because Kiernan Shipka kind of killed it.

[sovay]

I'd actually love to know what that song was, because Kiernan Shipka kind of killed it.

It's one of the major reasons I want the soundtrack! I tried to search it by lyrics in May and came up with nothing.

[handful_ofdust]

Interestingly, one of the books written by Shirley Jackson-inspired horror writer Iris Blum in I Am the Pretty Thing... is called She Wore Her Hair Around Her Neck, seemingly linking it to and/or referencing that song.