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[Book Review] ‘Shredded: A Sports and Fitness Body Horror Anthology’
Edited by Eric Raglin and published by the Cursed Morsels Podcast, Shredded is the kind of love letter to body horror for the kids who were picked last in gym class and fitness nuts alike.
The Entity: Trauma and the Transgression of Spirits
Sidney Furie’s film attracted a fair amount of attention—not least because this film, like The Amityville Horror before it, was based on a true, and well-documented, story.
Depictions of Trauma in ‘When a Stranger Calls Back’
When a Stranger Calls Back is a stalker-slasher that stands apart from other films in the genre, giving fans a more rounded, nuanced vision into how trauma might be dealt with in a horror film, without sacrificing the scares.
Transcending Boundaries: Shadow in the Cloud (2020)
Shadow in the Cloud, directed by Roseanne Liang and released last year, serves as both an action-packed popcorn flick while also renewing the image of the American in WWII movies.
The Shining’s Final Girl: Wendy Torrance & Vulnerability
The real horror behind The Shining is the emotional labor of Wendy Torrance. Wendy Torrance is the ultimate Final Girl and the heroine we didn’t know we needed.
10 Years After ‘The Skin I Live In’: Abject, Object, and Gender
Pedro Almodóvar’s controversial 2011 film The Skin I Live In is the ultimate conundrum: It is both visually and auditorily appealing, exciting and shocking, and yet it is deeply problematic.
Cinequest 2021: The Yellow Wallpaper, reviewed
Indie filmmakers Kevin Ponntuti and Alexandra Loreth tackle the classic story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in a feminist narrative that just misses the mark.
Sundance 2021: ‘Violation’ & ‘Knocking’, reviewed
In our latest Sundance roundup, Ande Thomas notes that Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli's Violation strikes a powerful chord in the rape-revenge subgenre, but Frida Kempff's Knocking falls flat in its attempt to tackle gaslighting.
Female Antagonists in Horror: Annie Wilkes
Marking Women in Horror Month, we dive into the maternal and monstrous of Annie Wilkes in Misery.
Foreshadowing The Great Recession in ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’
A deep dive into the visuals of The Exorcism of Emily Rose reveals a haunting foreshadowing of the economic recession.
How ‘Ginger Snaps’ Breathes New Life into the Werewolf Genre
If Ginger’s transformation is a manifestation of her blossoming womanhood, then both Brigitte and their mother express a desire to prevent Ginger’s growing up.