After skipping a couple of months, overthinkingit.com rejoins the Final Girl Film Club with a review of Strait-Jacket. Somewhat unusually, the review below is SPOILER-FREE.  I mean, you’ll learn a couple of little things about the movie, but the big twists – and there are more than you might think – are left for you to discover.

Okay, so did “Joan Crawford Axe Murderer” catch your attention?  It sure did mine.  With that kind of a hook, you’ve got to be wondering what kind of crazysauce movie Strait-Jacket is.  Answer:  it is THIS kind of crazysauce movie.

Once again, Overthinkingit hops into the saddle for Stacie Ponder’s Final Girl Film Club. This month’s pick:  The Car.

Can we all just take a minute to consider how stupid that title is, by the way?  Sure, there’s a proud tradition of naming horror movies after the thing that’s doing the killing:  “Anaconda,” “Piranha,” “Bats,” “Orca,” “Leeches!,” etc.  etc.  These all work as titles because the things they refer to are scary, or at least used to be until Free Willy came out. I get nervous when I see an anaconda at the zoo.  I twitch a little when I type the word piranha – have you seen pictures of these bastards?  “The Car” isn’t going to do the trick.

Yes, I know carbon emissions are destroying the planet.  Don’t care.  I know that drunk driving is the number one killer of Americans aged 1-29.  Still don’t care.  Cars aren’t scary.  It doesn’t matter how many people they kill.  I mean, would you go to see a horror movie called “The Heart Disease?”  At the very least, they could have used this for the tagline…

You know, I said I was going to stop writing about horror so much.  But that was before I found out about the Final Girl Film Club, which just seems like too much fun to pass up.  Basically how it works is a bunch of us film nerds agree to review the same obscure horror film on the same day, thus fostering community, attracting new visitors to our respective sites, and generally making the internet just a smidge more similar to having actual friends.  (By the way, If you haven’t seen Stacey Ponder’s little new-media empire, which in addition to the aforementioned Film Club includes two blogs, assorted facebook gruppen, and an agreeably DIY webseries; it’s all well worth a look.  Provided you like horror.  Which if you don’t, by now you’ve probably already clicked through to one of our Disney Princess posts.)