Toadlickers return with the second screening in their 4-film series THE FEMININE URGE… here’s what the Toad Lickers Collective have to say about it:
OFFICE KILLER is photographer Cindy Sherman’s only feature film , starring Carol Kane as a meek secretary whose life is defined by the mundane horror of office culture.
When Dorine Douglas’ job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn’t know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
LANGUAGE: English
RUN TIME: 1hr 35m
VIBE: Bedroom grunge / weird girl camp
This screening is part of THE FEMININE URGE, a series themed around alternative depictions of femininity, where violence, psychopathy and dissociation define female leads. The selected films look at the changing nature of feminine archetypes, with a move towards the ‘girlboss’ as a loyal subject of capitalism. In late-stage capitalism, girlboss culture relies on social expectations of femininity to enact a quiet evil – maintaining the status quo through a veil of softness, care and subjugation. The women on screen in THE FEMININE URGE represent a dystopian end-point for the deadly combination of quiet servitude and internal rage that capitalist-feminism feeds on, but in some cases also a cathartic and pure form of evil through urge fulfilment that rebels directly against societally-forced identities.
MORE IN THIS SERIES
26th May 2026 || LADY TERMINATOR
The spirit of an ancient evil queen possesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage in this Indonesian bootleg off the back of the James Cameron classic.
7th July 2026 || I BLAME SOCIETY
Writer and director Gillian Wallace-Horvat plays a fictionalised version of herself in this mockumentary style piece, all based around a “compliment” she once received – that she would make a great murderer.