horror
Backtalk: Let’s Take Refuge in Horror
This week, Dahlia and Amy get creepy and ghouly about screen horror (as opposed to the horror of our everyday lives). In this Halloweeny episode, we dig into the role of horror film and TV and how it helps us cope with our lived realities. We’ve also got a Petty Political Pminute starring our... Read more »
On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: “Halloween” Makes Women-Led Horror History
The new Halloween had the biggest opening for a horror film with a female lead and for any film with a female lead over the age of 55.
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Excavating Trauma and the Healing Power of Haunted-Home Films
Trauma-of-the-home films have the power to demonstrate human resilience in the face of terrible things.
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Home Sweet Haunt: Grief and Trauma Are the Lurking Horrors in “The Haunting of Hill House”
You can’t control trauma, and you can’t always protect yourself from scares.
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Popaganda: Speaking to Specters
Ghosts reveal what is hidden away, under the layers of social etiquette, historical revisionism, and taboo.
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Backtalk: We Don’t Need to be Civil to Inhumane People
This week, Dahlia and Amy survived another week where hell is empty and all the devils are here on earth. It’s been a couple weeks of horrifying news and the last thing we need to hear is how progressive folks need to be civil to the inhumane Right. It feels the the least possible harm that Stephen... Read more »
Sentimental Miseducation: Alice Bolin Deconstructs the Dead Girl Narrative
From Nicole Brown Simpson to JonBenét Ramsey, Twin Peaks to Pretty Little Liars, the Dead Girl trope has haunted American media and pop culture decade after decade.
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Predictable Subtext: “Scream 3” Foreshadowed Hollywood's #MeToo Moment
The critically-panned slasher film is a scathing indictment of how women are treated in Hollywood.
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Digging into Horror's "Final Girl" Trope
A teen girl waits inside a creepy, empty house with a knife. She knows the killer is outside and she knows he’s coming to kill her next.
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