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What’s Real and What Isn’t in Cursed Films0
- Reviews, Television and Film
- May 21, 2020
Horror has long been a worthy genre, but it’s lately been getting it’s analytical due. Streaming site Shudder has created excellent original documentaries, History of Horror and Horror Noire. The streak continues with five bite-sized episodes of Cursed Films. The series reexamines some of our more infamous pop culture memories about horror movies. With its
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Our Darkest Dreams Described: Horror Fiction in the 20th Century by Jess Nevins0
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- May 12, 2020
Horror fiction has a history problem. While its cousin, the science fiction genre, has been eagerly mapped by decades’ worth of enthusiasts, much of horror’s heritage has been documented in comparatively little detail. Perhaps this is due to the genre’s aura of disreputability; or maybe we can point to so many of horror’s finest specimens
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Jane Mai’s Soft is a Brilliant Retelling of Carmilla0
- Comics, Indie & Small Press, Reviews, Zines
- April 30, 2020
CONTENT WARNING: This article contains discussion of abusive relationships. When a friend recommended I watch a low budget webseries about a lesbian vampire who falls in love with her plucky college roommate, I didn’t realize it was based on Carmilla, a vampire novella by Sheridan Le Fanu older than Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I was fascinated
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Helen Mullane on Her Folk Horror Graphic Novel Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen2
- Comics
- March 18, 2020
Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen introduces us to a young, jaded London teen living her typical jaded teen life that is not at all pleased about having to spend her summer in the countryside. When Nissy meets a handsome older man named Reggie, she finds herself drawn to him. Exploring the tumultuous emotions of a
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Sweet Heart #1 Faces its Monsters0
- Reviews
- March 4, 2020
Dillon Gilbertson has openly spoken the fact that Sweet Heart #1’s monstrosities represent his own struggles with diabetes, but the first issue quickly establishes itself as an analogy for the many mental and physical horrors that plague us.
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Normal Offers Queer, Desi Horror That Packs a Punch0
- Zines
- February 6, 2020
The last Gaysi zine I reviewed was All that We Want, a gorgeous, warm celebration of queer desire. Their newest zine, Normal, is a complete departure from that exploration of queer joy, and instead dives into all that keeps us from such experiences. As Niyati Joshi makes known in their introduction, queer and trans people
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Sweet Heart #1 Faces its Monsters
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