Abstract:American Mary (2012) is a film directed by the Canadian sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska. It is centered upon the body as a locus where horror dwells. On the one hand, Mary's body itself constitutes a repository for myth: she is a metaphorical vampire and she can also be said to give life to the legend of Bloody Mary. On the other hand, the bodies that Mary radically modifies in the sequence of her surgeries operate within the cinematic narrative as real monstrous creations, in the sense that they inform a kind of… Show more
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