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MOURNING AND SECRET INTERIORS IN DONNA MCRAE’S ‘JOHNNY GHOST’
By Catherine Jessica Beed
This film came to me as a welcome surprise, a postpunk psychological drama with delicious elements of horror and a subject aching in itself. Composed around the term “cryptic incorporation”, this film breathes in layers; at the heart of it a woman in crisis, caged in a present intrinsically linked with a traumatic past. Cryptic incorporation here being refused mourning, an incompleteness of the grieving process.