#single white female (1992)

[tacitwaveguide]

𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆

(1992) with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh

[virtue3vice]

Single White Female Syndrome. 🔪

[cosmicretreat]

[badass-at-fandoming]

Hey so I was going through the Shadows of New York tag and found this gem

And I just had to let everyone know this is actually a reference to this 1992 thriller!

Haha, thank you, yes, I know the movie now. I'm glad you found the memes funny! :D

Oof, it's been over a year I think since I played Shadows of New York, and wow, that confrontation with Dakota comes off as so bizarre still. When I saw her in Julia's clothes, I thought Dakota was being very cute: like she missed Julia so much she wore her stuff. As the scene went on, I realized the devs wanted me to find Dakota's behavior creepy....but much of that creepiness hinged on me, the player, having watched Single White Female. Neither Julia nor Dakota explain the reference or that Hedy's actions are sinister. When I grew too puzzled, I paused the game, looked up Single White Female, and had to read the whole plot summary to understand why Julia was flying off the handle.

I love to include many allusions in my writing, but a big learning process in my career is how to use them effectively. Ya gotta put them in when it makes sense to...when it's realistic a character would know it...in an unobtrusive way so that people who haven't read/watched/devoured the referenced material don't get left out.... Shadows of New York's Dakota confrontation scene is a great example of how not to do it. I seriously doubt the Draw Distance writers wanted to throw their players out of the story during the climax. Let alone send them off to Wikipedia to read a plot summary from a movie that came out three decades ago.

Anyway, thank you for the ask and letting me babble. Have a great rest of your day!

[actressplaygroundxxx]

Jennifer Jason Leigh (30) in Single White Female (1992)

[paristexaz]

OH, NO. MUST BE THE SEASON OF THE WITCH, BITCH

↳ an era of female villains ❤️‍🔥

Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987) portrayed by Glenn Close

Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990) portrayed by Kathy Bates

Peyton Flanders/Mrs. Motts in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) portrayed by Rebecca de Mornay

Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct (1992) portrayed by Sharon Stone

Hedra "Hedy" Carlson/Ellen Besch in Single White Female (1992) portrayed by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Suzanne "Suzy" Stone in To Die For (1995) portrayed by Nicole Kidman

Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions (1999) portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar

[depalmafan]

Single White Female (1992), dir. Barbet Schroeder.

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

GUTS ~ Horror

{Stoker (2013), Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire (2022-), Pearl (2022), Midsommar (2019), Possession (1981), TITANE (2021), Single White Female (1992), The Neon Demon (2013), Death Proof (2007)}

[vampirecorleone]

"'I don't want to try to be loved anymore. I don't want to be scared anymore. Or to kill anymore. I don't want to kill anymore. I... don't want to be alone anymore. I don't want to be anything anymore. I don't need a reason to kill myself. I need a reason not to. There isn't one.' You don't want to say anything special to anyone? Okay, 'Allison Jones.'" | "There. Now they'll know it was you." | "No one who knows me will believe that I wrote that. I was never that scared. Well... Not like that."

Single white Female (1992) dir. Barbet Schroeder

[4ndj4]

Video games the Dogs would play

(headcanons)

! ! !

Cn – games they could actually "canonically" play (1972-1992)

Mdrn – games they would play in this day and age (1972-2024)

~

Mr. White

Cn: Dune

Or any rts games

I think he'd like Warcraft: Orcs and Humans the most but he didn't even get to see it 😭

Mdrn: Mount and Blade

Ridiculously kind to every npc, has to max out every relation score

I said it a billion times and I'll say it again, he likes history.

Mr. Orange

Cn: Police Quest III

I wonder why-

I guess he'd also like Street fighter, I can imagine him playing with Holdaway (Bison player??)

Mrdn: Far Cry 3

Vaas Montenegro fanboy??

Plays the whole thing in like a week, then tryhards the open world

Shits his pants every time he sees a cassowary or a rabid dog

Mr. Pink

Cn: Civilisation I

Mdrn: Oh uhm, League of Legends (I'm sorry)

I know this bitch spend hours on Civ cursing at Barbarians

Every single npc hates him

Not a hardcore stinky tryhard though...

Refuses to play female characters so people don't think he's a simp

Maybe even World of Tanks

Mr. Blonde

Cn: Wolfenstein or Doom

I mean it has to be fps games...

Shooting stuff makes him happy

Mdrn: Counter strike 1.6

Learned Russian from the players

Hates playing the counter terrorist even though he's probably better at it

Mr. Brown

Cn: Final fantasy III

Nerd.

Probably played I and II like 30 times too

Mdrn: Genshin Impact (I am so sorry)

Eula main??

Is the hardcore stinky tryhard

Maybe even Doki Doki Literature Club, hear me out on this... (he'd like Natsuki the most)

Mr. Blue

Cn: Pong (probably)

Hehe ball go left right

Mdrn: Pong (probably)

[cephalopodsquad]

the single white female (1992) of it all...

[davidhudson]

Happy 60th, Bridget Fonda.

With Jennifer Jason Leigh in Barbet Schroeder’s Single White Female (1992).

[01sentencereviews]

New To Me - 2023

All About Alice (1972, Ray Harrison)

Bambi (1942, David Hand)

Die, Mommie, Die! (2003, Mark Rucker)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Elephant (1989, Alan Clarke)

Erin Brockovich (2000, Steven Soderbergh)

Glen or Glenda (1953, Edward D. Wood Jr.)

A Happening in Central Park (1968, Robert Scheerer)

In Vanda’s Room (2000, Pedro Costa)

LA Plays Itself (1972, Fred Halsted)

The Ladies Man (1961, Jerry Lewis)

Morvern Callar (2002, Lynne Ramsay)

News from Home (1976, Chantal Akerman)

A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018, Jane Schoenbrun)

Series 7: The Contenders (2001, Daniel Minahan)

Single White Female (1992, Barbet Schroeder)

Terminal USA (1993, Jon Moritsugu)

What Really Happened to Baby Jane (1963, Ray Harrison)

The Wiz (1978, Sidney Lumet)

Zero Day (2002, Ben Coccio)

+++

2LDK (2003, Yukihiko Tsutsumi)

AM1200 (2008, David Prior)

Another Gay Movie (2006, Todd Stephens)

Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven)

Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984, Ray Cameron)

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995, Shinichi Fukazawa)

Caniba (2017, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)

Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)

The Color Purple (1985, Steven Spielberg)

Crimes of Passion (1984, Ken Russell)

Death to Smoochy (2002, Danny DeVito)

The Faculty (1998, Robert Rodriguez)

Foxfur (2012, Damon Packard)

The Fluffer (2001, Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)

Freeway (1996, Matthew Bright)

Girls Will Be Girls (2003, Richard Day)

Hotel (2004, Jessica Hausner)

The Idiots (1998, Lars von Trier)

The Inheritance (2020, Ephraim Asili)

Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular (2013, Gregg Gelfand)

Mod Fuck Explosion (1994, Jon Moritsugu)

Ned Rifle (2014, Hal Hartley)

Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988, Paul Reubens & Wayne Orr)

R100 (2013, Hitoshi Matsumoto)

The Salt Mines [1990] & The Transformation [1996] (Susana Aikin & Carlos Aparicio)

Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer)

Sextool (1975, Fred Halsted)

Sibyl (2019, Justine Triet)

Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)

Star 80 (1983, Bob Fosse)

Strange Days (1995, Kathryn Bigelow)

Teknolust (2002, Lynn Hershman-Leeson)

Theorem (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

[talesfromthecrypts]

If it’s not too much trouble, are there any other movies like “The Hitcher” that you would recommend? Horror/Thriller films that are just full of ~subtext~?

Oh I can do that. The issue is I also suffer from *The Delusions* and see bi people in everything but here we go

Fright Night (1985) AND Fright Night (2011)

Les Diaboliques (1955)

Witchboard (1986)

Ravenous (1999)

Rope (1948) (obviously)

Single White Female (1992)

The Silenced (2015)

Always Shine (2016)

Braid (2018)

[jessaerys]

Becoming a mysterious shy shy anon to ask you, my favorite meronia analyst, how you think Mello would react to someone desperately trying to get with Near. They are so so thirsty for the little cotton ball man and they are very loud and obvious about it. How do you think Mello would handle that?

firstables i am very flattered thank you im so very glad acquiring a PhD in 2008 yaoi is yielding results. i want to be modest about it but i am objectively so correct about them so i cannot. second of all this question is so so funny to me because mello insane toxic jealousy is a running joke between me and the bestie @firebuggg who is the resident mello expert and specialist and therefore my source for all of the research here presented. so.

i think it depends on the variables: in-canon timeline wammy’s era i don’t think mello would be able to tell the difference between the usual unhinged lifelong single-white-female-1992 freudian near-obsession repression and the unhinged (etc etc) sublimated near obsession repression: hell and violence on planet earth for seemingly no reason -edition.

so probably he’d find an unrelated excuse to get into a schoolyard fistfight with whoever was possibly paying more attention to near than usual (romantic interest never proven). L understands what is happening but this is far above his fatherbrotherhero paygrade thank you very much. let us all forget about this information and continue with the labyrinthian tests of his subjects i mean protegees 

during the kira-case realistically they were far too busy with life or death stakes and i cannot truly imagine this would take any of their time, considering near very deliberately chose to repress any emotions about mello’s death. (unrealistically: same as wammy’s but this time it includes kidnapping and intimidation. if pre-explosion: cokehead era mello is like: you’re sleeping with the fishes tonight. and they do)

post-kira case (taking into account any "mello survives" approach to canon of your choosing) post-recently established relationship mello would make it his life mission to manic-pixie-dream-boy the hell out of near and take him out to many fun adventures in the city (do not fall in love with people like him he will take you to museums and parks and monuments etc etc etc etc and when he leaves you will finally understand why storms are named after people)(god he would absolutely unironically identify with that quote. but we don’t have time to unpack all of that)

god sorry this is so long already and i have so much more to say. it's readmore time

where was i. right.

--many fun adventures in the City from obscure hole in the wall museums (near is delighted by the museum of interesting things and the new york transit museum [because. trains. mello complains the whole way there but ultimately has to begrudgingly admit it’s really cool.] and tears up in the mmuseumm on cortlandt and franklin because personally i think he would deeply connect with the mundane ephemeral humanity of it. he is learning that he loves being part of the world !!!!) to shopping trips (with L's inheritance. obviosuly) to nightclubs to weird art clubs to seedy comedy bars to sex-clubs (see hotd. s1e4 pleasure house scene)

because he has a huge fetish for watching near have new experiences and being the one who is giving them to him (:

ok are you still with me i promise i am getting somewhere. ok so we have established mello is gonna drag him out, right, and so he eventually will have to experience The Unforeseen Horrors (people hitting on near because he’s cute).

it’s initially hilarious until mello realizes with dawning horror that near has no idea that he is being hit on and is therefore exhibiting the slightlest bit of human interest in the aforementioned person hitting on him and it becomes a full on gevanni situation part two. (we don’t have time to get into the Gevanni Situation)

one day someone gets lucky and hits on near with a special-interest-related pick up line so a conversation with the previous dynamic ensues. kill bill sirens going off in mello’s head. the person in question asks who mello is and near goes “oh! that’s mello” instead of saying that’s his boyfriend and well that’s because they have not at any point discussed labels and this basically, well how do i put it lightly, becomes the equivalent of accidental nuclear warfare (shaking my head so you know i don’t support toxic jealousy. unless it’s funny)

long story short mello throws a hissy fit at the MET that near finds extremely ridiculous so he goes home on his own and mello experiences all nine stages of grief and cries in the sculpture garden and then decides he is going to disappear for an entire week and That Will Teach Near!!! but with no immediately place to go he sits angrily (with his sexy toned arms crossed over his chest and his tear-glowing classically beautiful ruddy face) on a bench just beneath a large greek statue of some greek twunk sitting with crossed arms (this is what we call visual comedy) 

some nyc photographer captures this top three worst moment of his life (first two being L’s death and exploding himself but this is right up there) and posts it online as one of those “life interacts with art” semi-meaningful photographs and it quickly gets picked up by the pinterest girlies much like guy drawing on the floor and subsequently by the tumblr girlies. it is immediately disconnected from the source and gets a 100k notes. 

now mello cannot go on tumblr without being callously reminded of the one time he was wronged by near spending twenty minutes talking about the SETI institute with a witty girl (he is a queer goth 20 year old in the mid 2010s of COURSE mello has an aesthetic n-fw tumblr pre pr-n ban era. you agree)

anyway near doesn’t get either the need for labels nor the jealous outrages because that’s literally Mello. there’s one (1) spot for a mello in his heart and it is mello-shaped. this is the most romantic thing mello has heard in his life. unfortunately that same logic can be used for why near doesn't get why it's a big deal if he wanted to hook up with someone else. it's not like they could take up the mello shaped spot in his heart. it's a big deal because mello will KHS hope that helps (:

ultimately years into their relationship near will break him down when they're older because he is a little learning machine and that includes sex. he needs enrichment. but it's gonna end up being like:

near: wow it was so hot when u were dancing with that girl. can i watch u fuck her :0 ← said like they're talking about dinner because he one hundred percent has voyeur potential. (mello is whipped and helpless to his bratty wiles) 

extremely hot mysterious bisexual guy with a huge dick you just danced with: wanna get outta here. my boyfriend wants to watch us ;) 

the boyfriend in question: looks like a lab rat turned 18 year old boy (near is 22. he will get carded until he’s 30)

sorry what was the question again

[brokehorrorfan]

Blu-ray Review: Unlawful Entry

Box office draw is anything but predictable, but Hollywood sure likes to hedge its bets. From Scream's teen slasher revival to Paranormal Activity's found footage trend to Marvel's superhero craze, a novel concept that over-performs is almost guaranteed to yield similar projects until audiences tire of the fad. Fatal Attraction launched a cycle of racy thrillers in the early '90s that included the likes of Basic Instinct, Single White Female, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Sleeping with the Enemy, and Cape Fear.

While not as well remembered as the aforementioned efforts, Unlawful Entry remains an effective entry in the subgenre from journeyman director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, ER). Lewis Colick's (October Sky, Charlie St. Cloud) script may traverse familiar tropes, but Kurt Russell (The Thing), Ray Liotta (Goodfellas), and Madeleine Stowe (12 Monkeys) gracefully elevate the material with their performances.

Bookended by tense home invasion sequences, the 1992 film opens with a burglar breaking into the upscale home of recent Los Angeles transplants Michael (Russell) and Karen Carr (Stowe). Although ultimately unharmed, they're left shaken up by the ordeal after Michael is forced to watch helplessly as the assailant holds Karen at knifepoint. Responding officer Pete Davis (Liotta) goes out of his way to help them feel safer.

Pete presents himself as the sincere lawman at first, but it quickly becomes clear to both the viewer and Michael that he's unhinged. He grows increasingly obsessed with Karen, invading not only the couple's home but also their lives as he does everything in his considerable power to take Michael out of the picture. The third act is exactly the suspenseful thrill-ride you'd want from a movie of this ilk.

While a lesser film would pit Russell and Liotta against one another in a testosterone-fueled stand-off, Unlawful Entry takes a more interesting approach. Although their conflict is not without machismo, their personalities repel one another on a granular level. Beyond coveting his wife, Pete has no respect for Michael. In Pete's mind, he is the alpha male getting his hands dirty and protecting the streets, so he deserves Michael's prosperous life.

Liotta is effectively disarming at first before unraveling into a deranged stalker. Russell is as charming as ever, but he's not afraid to show vulnerability. Stowe brings a cleverness to the damsel in distress. The cast also includes Roger E. Mosley (Magnum P.I.) as Pete's level-headed partner, Ken Lerner (The Goldbergs) as Michael's lawyer, Dick Miller (Gremlins) as an impound clerk, and a young Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy) as a prisoner.

Unlawful Entry is now invading homes on Blu-ray via Scream Factory exclusively on ShoutFactory.com. While the company's limited releases are typically reserved for titles with a more narrow appeal, Unlawful Entry's allotment of 1,620 units sold out in a matter of days, prompting them to increase the run to 2,600 (which brings into question the point of limiting it in the first place, but I digress).

The film is presented in high definition from an existing transfer with 5.1 Surround DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo DTS-HD Master Audio options. The quality is aggressively fine; it certainly won't win any competitions against a modern 4K master, but it's a welcome improvement over the old DVD.

Despite its limited status, new special features were produced: a 28-minute interview Kaplan, who sets the stage by highlighting his genre-hopping career before focusing on Unlawful Entry; an interview with cinematographer Jamie Anderson (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Small Soldiers); and an featurette in which music historian Daniel Schweiger breaks down the score by James Horner (Aliens, Avatar).

Archival special features include: a DVD commentary by Kaplan, who notes how he learned how to reflect the subjectivity of human experience in film by watching Alfred Hitchcock and details how the Rodney King riots impacted the movie; a vintage EPK-style featurette with snippets from Kaplan, Russell, Liotta, Stowe, and more; the theatrical trailer; and two TV spots.

In a time when police misconduct is caught on camera on a near-daily basis, Unlawful Entry is all the more relevant over 30 years removed from its original release. Coupled with a severely underrated performance from the late Liotta, the '90s thriller gem begging for rediscovery.

Unlawful Entry is available now on Blu-ray via Scream Factory.