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MeduSirena’sHagsploitationCinema Symposium
They were told they were too old, too difficult, too washed up. Hollywood gave them hatchets, haunted mansions, and close-ups of their terror. They gave us cinema gold.
Presented by Marina “MeduSirena” · Tiki icon · Aquatic performance star · Mai-Kai/Molokai DenMother and ambassador
Grande dames gone gloriously dangerous
What is Hagsploitation?
Also known as Grande Dame Guignol, Hagsploitation is the wild, wicked subgenre of the 1960s and ’70s in which Golden Age goddesses returned to the screen as monsters, murderesses, and madwomen.
These were roles built from terror, camp, cruelty, and spectacle—and seized by formidable performers who made every close-up unforgettable.
The pictures that made the genre
A visually drenched lecture from MeduSirena’s vault
Not exploitation. Reclamation.
Created from her fan-hag archive as a performer—and through the lens of the inspirations behind MEDUSAVISIÓN and several of her infamous Thanksgiving Experiment Galleries—MeduSirena reframes these films as something far richer than a cinematic sideshow.
With wit, affection, and a Gorgon’s eye for detail, she reveals how these screen icons turned the industry’s fear of aging women into ferocious, unforgettable art.
Inside the symposium
Beauty, aging, rage & cinema
Inception & history
Trace the conditions that created Grande Dame Guignol and the formidable women who turned a supposed career-ending genre into cinema gold.
The visual language
Explore the mansions, mirrors, make-up, melodrama, menace, and monstrous close-ups that made the films instantly recognizable.
The legacy lives
Follow Hagsploitation’s influence into current films and the evolving cultural conversation around beauty, aging, female rage, and power.
Your hostess for the evening
Marina “MeduSirena”
Tiki icon · Aquatic performance star · Mai-Kai/Molokai DenMother and ambassador
Prepare for a wickedly fun romp through the deliciously dangerous world of Grande Dame Guignol with MeduSirena—your TropiCrone Gorgon hostess.
This is film history with teeth: scholarly, spectacular, gloriously camp, and dressed for its close-up.
Come for the glamour. Stay for the hatchets.
Join MeduSirena for a celebration of the grand dames who refused to disappear quietly—and the films that made their fury immortal.
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