Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh uses cannibalism as a device to explore themes of power, privilege, grief & society’s role in perpetuating oppression.
Tender Is the Flesh Book Review: Grief, Cannibalism & the Nuclear Family
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Swallow Film Review: Impulse-Control Disorders & Domestic Horror
I don’t talk about it as often as I should, but my skincare obsession began as an attempt to curb a different type of obsession. Dermatillomania, also known as excoriation disorder, is defined by the DSM as “a disorder of impulse control characterized by...
My Quarantine Horror Picks: No Zombies, Just Isolation
In a horror fan's dictionary, "quarantine" generally comes before "zombie" and after "apocalypse." Movies like Night of the Living Dead, Train to Busan, and 28 Days Later (as well as 2019's fantastic Blood Quantum, if you're looking for the most relevant 21st century...
Book Review: Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
If you’ve ever wondered what the Grimm’s Fairy Tales would be like if they were written by a female and released smack dab in the middle of Trump’s presidency, you need to grab yourself a copy of Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection. Her Body and Other...
Revenge: Coralie Fargeat Takes a Stab at the Male Gaze
No matter the genre, Hollywood has a long history of exploiting violence against women as entertainment. In her first feature-length film, Revenge, French director Coralie Fargeat acknowledges, rejects, and transcends this history, subverting the genre’s typical...
Rabid (2019): A Feminist Fairytale from Jen & Sylvia Soska
Contrary to popular opinion, I preferred the Soska Sisters' version of Rabid to the Cronenberg version (although it’s worth noting that I’m a rabid fan of the sisters … see what I did there?). I delighted in their feminist rewrite of the ending and got to thinking...
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