By Johanna Isaacson In classic feminist films, the kitchen is a place of repetition whose Sisyphean tasks incrementally arouse dread… Read more Kitchens After Midnight: Gremlins
Category: Horror
Ex Machina: Refusing the Space Billionaire Sublime
A few weeks ago I opened The Guardian to find that the voice of my middle-aged generation, Douglas Coupland, author of the… Read more Ex Machina: Refusing the Space Billionaire Sublime
Barbarian (2022) and the Politics of Dysfluency in Contemporary U.S. American Soundscapes
By Jarred Wiehe Dysfluency haunted the soundscape of American politics in the Autumn of 2022.[1] Prior to the only televised… Read more Barbarian (2022) and the Politics of Dysfluency in Contemporary U.S. American Soundscapes
Women’s Non-Naturalistic Acting in Contemporary Horror: Get Out, Hereditary, Us, and Pearl
By Johanna Isaacson Due to my horror film obsession, I stopped watching the Oscars and other Hollywood awards shows years… Read more Women’s Non-Naturalistic Acting in Contemporary Horror: Get Out, Hereditary, Us, and Pearl
Chopping it Up and Burning it Down: Queer Camp in “Night Warning”
By Johanna Isaacson As we enter the age of the “social thriller,” horror is in a transformative moment. Films like… Read more Chopping it Up and Burning it Down: Queer Camp in “Night Warning”
“With your body we can supply an everlasting demand for submission”: Reproductive politics and Body Horror in Antibirth
By Johanna Isaacson With the visceral connection it makes between forced pregnancy and military-sanctioned torture, the 2016 psychedelic body horror… Read more “With your body we can supply an everlasting demand for submission”: Reproductive politics and Body Horror in Antibirth
Killer Capitalist Clothes in In Fabric, Slaxx, and Deerskin
By Johanna Isaacson In his chapter from Capital, “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof,” Karl Marx asserts that under… Read more Killer Capitalist Clothes in In Fabric, Slaxx, and Deerskin
Abjection and The New Soldier Male in “Daniel Isn’t Real.”
By Johanna Isaacson In 1977 Klaus Theweleit explored what he called “proto-fascist consciousness” by investigating the desires and values that… Read more Abjection and The New Soldier Male in “Daniel Isn’t Real.”
The Tactless Soul at Work: Affective Insurgency in “Office”
By Johanna Isaacson (Tons of Spoilers!) We are in a golden moment of Korean anti-capitalist culture. Squid Games has shown us the… Read more The Tactless Soul at Work: Affective Insurgency in “Office”
Subway Horror Cinema and Infrastructural Brutalism
by Michael Truscello “It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly… Read more Subway Horror Cinema and Infrastructural Brutalism
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