Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is over for another year, but many of the films I saw will linger long on my mind. That’s especially true for...
As a repressed teen with a burgeoning interest in horror and a big lesbian awakening coming her way a decade later, Torchwood was something of a...
The Arquettes are a Fright Family. Together, they have starred in five major horror franchises, including A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. Patricia, David, and...
Sometimes, we need to shift our shape in order to fully embody our true form. Shifting lies at the core of our survival. It invites us...
Knife+Heart is a film that will never be forgotten, something that exists to transcend genre tropes. It never delves into bad taste, like many giallo films do....
Waters has been known throughout his career to give great film advice, from B-movie gems to wacky splatter flicks. Notably, Waters has always been fond of...
Despite the rigid guidelines of the Hays Code, which was active from 1934 to 1968, the horror genre has hosted a bevy of intriguing queer characters....
Happy Pride Month, everybody! We’re here, we’re queer, and we want to stay home tonight and binge-watch horror movies! I have triumphantly returned to the It...
Saw the Musical’s very existence makes me happy. It’s nice to see a horror movie that was initially dismissed as mindless “torture porn” by many critics...
Is 'Jaws' (1974) queer coded? Jaws does pass the Bechdel test… once. Aside from a brief geographic conversation between wives, Jaws is homosocial and guided by men and their...
The film opens with Jess Bradford (Olivia Hussey) confronting her boyfriend Peter (Keir Dullea) with the news of her pregnancy,...
Black Christmas (2019) opens with so much promise but immediately gets in its own way. What seemed like an attempted...
“Horror [films] should be a space of freedom, a territory for experimentation. But what happens is often the opposite.” These...
Martyrs (2008) is infamously known as one of the most disturbing films of the 21st century. It is often considered...
In a recent article, I talked about the legacy of William Castle and the many gimmicks he used to promote...
There are people who genuinely dislike jump scares for good reasons, both personal and philosophical. However, given how frequently the...
The Mexican horror film Kilometer 31 (KM 31), directed by Rigoberto Castañeda, takes the story of La Llorona and gives...
With Terrifier 3 coming out soon and promising the deaths of between 1 and 200 children as Art the Clown...
At a recent movie screening, I saw someone displaying unparalleled bravery in the audience. I saw someone willing to push...
I know The Shining is aesthetically pleasing and has a cast many of us would have killed to work with....