By Johanna Isaacson (Spoilers Alert!!!) Like most people alive today in the US, I read Shirley Jackson’s short story “The… Read more Gender Gothic in “The Haunting of Hill House” from Shirley Jackson to Alison Rumfitt
Tag: Horror
“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
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
“She Wants Your Children”
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”
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
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