Spoiler warning: there are spoilers for both films in this piece. Women in horror spin delicious webs. Complex renderings of rage, grief, and madness require astute...
Surviving a horror movie requires a sheer will of the heart. Not everyone is equipped with the determination and skillset to rise above it all and...
Perception is everything. Filmmakers often toy with reality by unscrewing the story from the unreliable narrator’s vantage point. In filtering events through a distorted lens, incrementally...
The early days of the pandemic were like living in some unholy vortex. Stores were indefinitely shuttered. The streets were eerily abandoned. And the threat of...
What do Black Christmas and Silent Night, Bloody Night have in common? Blurry first-person POV? Check. Mouth-breathing killer? Double check. Creepy phone calls? Triple Check. In...
‘Tis the season to be thankful. The dust has settled on Halloween, and November brings colder temps and the dreaded time change. As the holidays loom,...
I grew up on Hocus Pocus, Halloweentown, and Goosebumps. These gateway horrors opened up a whole new world for me. The trembling fear I endured when...
Religious extremism is as old as religion itself. A belief in sorcery and witchcraft as some ungodly source has always been present when it comes to...
We are still in the heat of summer, and that means there’s still some time for the pool, camping, and leisurely road trips across the country....
Going off to a secluded location always leads to disaster. Characters swap the bright lights of the city for a respite far removed from civilization, unaware...
As human beings, we can’t accept death. Most of us have trouble reconciling the end of one’s existence and the afterlife. It’s a hard pill to...
The wilderness is a breeding ground for unimaginable horrors. With expanses of trees, the darkness feels as though it’s closing in on you. Tree limbs creak,...
Horror’s queerness has always been tied to the other. Whether we’re talking about literal monsters, as in the case of Bride of Frankenstein, or the queer-coded...
Joan and Jane are two women trapped in their lives. Joan is trapped in a cold, dead marriage, and Jane is trapped by the trauma of...
The tragedy cast a very long shadow. Up on Droop Mountain, a college student discovered the bodies of hitchhikers Vicki Durian and Nancy Santomero. They’d both...
In the final moments of I Blame Society, Gillian Wallace Horvat goes absolutely apeshift on a couple of film bros. “I am a strong female lead,”...
Social media is a cursed necessity of modern life. The hunt for likes, RTs, comments, and shares is never-ending. Most days, it feels as though you’re...
The greatest and most universal experience is death. And we’re all afraid to die, in our own way. Whether it’s full-blown thanatophobia or just a faint,...
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