You’re probably balking at the title, but hear me out! In one of my blog posts, I explained my personal identification with Anna from Possession. I argued that her gross monstrousness was cathartic. I specifically identified with her need to break free from societies’ expectations of women and act like the monster she harboured within….
Genre, Gender, and Horror: An Interview with Carrie Reese
A couple weeks ago, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed, once again wasting time on a meme page about public transit and new urbanism, when a notification popped up from my university’s cinema studies student society. I was pleasantly surprised to see the posted flyer advertising a seminar talk literally about my blog’s focus….
“Hell is a Teenage Girl”: Periods and Puberty in Horror Movies
I don’t miss my adolescent years at all. With it came a lot of angst, drama, and the terrors of puberty. The thought reminds me of a recent conversation I had with a friend where we were talking about his experiences in teaching. Though he graduated from university five years ago with a degree in…
Is it worth it to be the Final Girl in a horror movie?
“You just fucked with the wrong virgin!” This is what Max yells right before she kills Billy Murphy, the psycho killer, in The Final Girls (2015). I had heard about the concept of the final girl in horror before, but only in passing. It was only in my recent viewing of the meta horror-comedy movie,…
Do we all owe Jennifer’s Body an apology???
“You Probably Owe ‘Jennifer’s Body’ an Apology”. I recently came across this BuzzFeed article and I abruptly stopped scrolling. I get pretty turned off at headlines that directly address me; there’s just something clickbait-y about them. But, inherent to the nature of clickbait, I clicked. I definitely wanted to know why I owed a film…
Why are women’s bodies so terrifying in horror movies?
After watching a considerable amount of horror movies this past year, I started to recognize a pattern. Specifically, horror movies have this tendency to make women’s bodies the site of the horror. But, c’mon, are we really that surprised? Y’know, what with The Patriarchy and all. Seriously though. Have you ever noticed that in women’s…
NASTY WOMEN 