horror
Switching Fears: “Freaky” Is an Empowering Body-Swap Horror Comedy
Freaky explores gender and body horror in a captivating (and extremely funny) way.
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Mind Interrupted: The Horrifying Manipulation of Black Women’s Psyches
The traumatic spectacles of these transformations often reveal so little about the interiority of the fictional Black women who experience them.
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Trauma Loop: “Antebellum” Mishandles Its Message
The film is fixated on racism as an act of overt violence, but racism is so monstrous because it can appear so deceptively normal.
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Haunted Housewife: The Horror—and the Humor—of Shirley Jackson
As both writer and housewife, she embodied identities that were incompatible according to the norms of her time.
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Staking Capitalism: The Undead Will Rise as Our Economy Spirals Into Chaos
Vampires aren’t the only thing returning in the near future: an economic recession is coming as well.
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7 Scary Books Feminists Should Read This Halloween and Beyond
Horror’s roots live with women.
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99 Percent Savior: In Contemporary Horror, It’s the Final Girl versus the Rich
The Final Girl is no longer a babysitter or camp counselor, but a working-class outsider to wealth and decadence who is treated as an exploitable object to be lured in with money.
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Hell Is Older People: Aging as the Ultimate Cinematic Horror
Unlike horror-movie fates such as, say, decapitation by paper cutter, aging is the ultimate fright because viewers recognize that they cannot escape it.
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Housebound: Why the Dollhouse Metaphor Remains So Indelible
The dollhouses of today are not, then, miniature playgrounds that train girls to believe their future paths go no further than their front door.
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Uneasy Spirits: Black Vengeance in Supernatural Pop Culture
There’s a specter in our midst, and it’s white people’s projection of their own guilt and fear onto the Black search for justice.
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