What’s Motherhood, When All’s Done, But the Giving and Taking of Wounds?

By Mahim Lakhani The horrors of the institution of motherhood transcend time. It is an evergreen space offering fears and… Read more What’s Motherhood, When All’s Done, But the Giving and Taking of Wounds?

Nosferatu and the Failure of Liberal Feminism

By Yanis Iqbal In Nosferatu (2024), Ellen, a young woman unwittingly caught in a supernatural bond with the vampire Count… Read more Nosferatu and the Failure of Liberal Feminism

By C. Josephine Hunt For Marxism, women, as much as men, are but a set of social relations, historically adapted… Read more Companion (2025): Fuckbots, Transfeminism, and the Unreal Woman

By Cameron Metcalfe During a press interview promoting The Witch (2015), director Robert Eggers was asked about audiences’ assumptions that… Read more ‘People don’t know what the witch of the 17th Century is at all’: The Witch and Vinegar Tom

By Flora Arnold At its 50th anniversary, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remains more than ever a perfectly pessimistic parable for… Read more Meaningless Macabre: White Supremacy, America, and the Chainsaw

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

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

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

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”

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