By Sophie Lewis Back in 2019, our beloved editor Sophie Lewis wrote a never-published take on the unconscious racial-familial politics… Read more “She Wants Your Children”
Category: Horror
RIPPER NATION: Serial Killer Reproduction and Viewer Complicity in Netflix’s The Ripper
By Jennie Gilman As if the murder of Sarah Everard by Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens [1], was not evidence… Read more RIPPER NATION: Serial Killer Reproduction and Viewer Complicity in Netflix’s The Ripper
Mutual Aid as Self-Defense in Bacurau
By Johanna Isaacson With its blazing guns and wide western expanses, no one would guess that the Brazilian horror western Bacurau is… Read more Mutual Aid as Self-Defense in Bacurau
Don’t Go Spilling His Beans: Pandemic, Social Reproduction, and the Hellscape of Masculine Austerity in The Lighthouse
By Johanna Isaacson The Covid 19 pandemic has highlighted two baffling contradictions and major impediments to left solidarity. First, we… Read more Don’t Go Spilling His Beans: Pandemic, Social Reproduction, and the Hellscape of Masculine Austerity in The Lighthouse
Crossing the line: Parasite and the horror of bourgeois domesticity
By Alva Gotby Two families, alike yet from different worlds, are the focus of Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite (2019). The… Read more Crossing the line: Parasite and the horror of bourgeois domesticity
Feminist Flashback: Were-girls Gone Wild in Ginger Snaps (2000)
By Johanna Isaacson Ginger Snaps rights a long-standing wrong in the history of horror film. The werewolf, a deeply embodied… Read more Feminist Flashback: Were-girls Gone Wild in Ginger Snaps (2000)
On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar
By Ben Furstenberg and Johanna Isaacson In an election last June, the Social Democratic party in Denmark handily beat the… Read more On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar
We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
By Johanna Isaacson | In the age of dying malls and zombie overkill does George Romero’s much discussed Dawn of the… Read more We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Unseeable Horror in Velvet Buzzsaw
“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.” — Bertolt Brecht [1] By Madeline Lane-McKinley | In the… Read more Unseeable Horror in Velvet Buzzsaw
Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor
By Rei Terada| i. In Pope.L’s film Reenactor (2012), a continuous loop of almost six hours in its longest version,… Read more Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor
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