(Are we supposed to identify with Rachel, the long suffering girlfriend of someone slowly losing their mind, or with Phillip, the newly enlightened red pill aficionado desperate to tear the wool away from her benighted party girl eyes?) These first few minutes of Rave Party Massacre (including a literal two minute and thirty second title sequence which, again, we will get to) give viewers as much context regarding Rachel and Phillip as a couple, their individual motivations and personalities, the political climate of the time, who the villains or protagonists of the film are, why, who we should be rooting for, or any other establishing or clarifying detail as we ever get, and it really isn’t much.Įven taking into account the films’s one infuriating “twist” toward the end, aside from a horridly disturbing occurrence relayed in dramatic black and white flashback, it is unclear which of their sides we’re even expected to be on up until that point, or what those sides or the twist are even really supposed to mean. According to the birthday girl, Phillip has already ruined dinner, and all she wants to do now is go inside, dance, and have a good time. As Rachel rolls up to the venue of the rave with boyfriend Phillip (Evan Taylor Williams, “Remember the Goal”), the two have apparently been arguing about the latter’s obsession with conspiracy theories all night. The party in question, we learn from a title card (more on that later, trust me), takes place three days after the presidential election of 1992, which also happens to be the birthday of one of the main characters (notice my intentional avoidance of terms like “final girl” or even “protagonist”), Rachel (Sara Bess, “Shay”). This is to say, the rave party we open with is rife with potential victims (and drug dispensing predators) yet they, along with anything potentially promised by what is a genuinely interesting initial set up, disappear inexplicably and, even taking the film’s bizarre pacing into account, early on, without any sort of explanation at all. What makes this titular inconsistency especially strange is the fact that the film actually does deliver on its other two eponymous promises. For a film that purports to portray a “massacre,” the body count by the time the credits roll is alarmingly small. You can view just the Movies in the IMDb Top 250 and last but not least, you can search the list.The problems with Rave Party Massacre begin - but certainly do not end - with its title. You can also view the list sorted by title, date added (latest first), number of comments, number of reviews or rating.Īn RSS feed is also available, listing the latest 50 movies added to the list. Be sure to check out Ten graphics on the Bechdel test on Reddit for more graphs. Clicking the icon before the title will take you to the movie's IMDb page.įor the sake of practicality, I've taken the liberty to read the first criterion as only named female characters counting. The list you see to the left of this text consists of an icon with the result of the tests (explained below), the title (clicking it will take you to its details page, where you can find the reviews and comments) and finally two optional icons, also explained below. The five latest comments were on: 05:53: The Invention of Lying (2009) 13:27: Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021) The five latest additions: 18:36: Love and Gelato (2022) Recent activityĬurrently 9570 movies in the database. If you disagree with a rating, please leave a comment on the appropriate movie page instead. If you want to add a movie to this list, please go to the Add a movie page and fill in the form. If you need access to the raw data, check out the docs for the api. For a nice video introduction to the subject please check out The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies on. The test was popularized by Alison Bechdel's comic, the name of which Google won't let me put on this page for inciting hate, in a 1985 strip called The Rule. The Bechdel Test, or Bechdel-Wallace Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel Rule is a simple test which names the following three criteria: (1) it has to have at least two women in it, who (2) who talk to each other, about (3) something besides a man.
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