Editorials Gender Bashing News October 3, 2019 Gender Bashing: MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE And Cult Control Of Women’s Bodies The horror genre has long accessed a universal fear of losing control of our own bodies, in various ways. Proto-zombie
Editorials Gender Bashing September 5, 2019 Gender Bashing: Feminine Fantasy in BRAID I like to think that, when writing her film Braid, director Mitzi Peirone was listening to the Stones’ timeless maxim:
Editorials Gender Bashing August 8, 2019 Gender Bashing: THE EYES OF MY MOTHER’s Feminine Navigation of Violence A new Joker movie is on its way down the pike, and there are already critics and fans alike throwing
Editorials Gender Bashing July 4, 2019 Gender Bashing: MAUS And The Use Of Male POV In A Woman’s Story Watching a horror movie as a woman can be oppositional at times. We love seeing a strong woman taking control
Editorials Gender Bashing June 7, 2019 Gender Bashing: The Weaponization of Patriarchal Authority In THE CLOVEHITCH KILLER There are plenty of depictions of fatherhood in the horror genre. The Shining‘s Jack Torrance, Frailty‘s Daddy Meiks, and It’s
Editorials Gender Bashing May 2, 2019 Gender Bashing: Externalizing Male Grief in THE INVITATION We all grieve. Some let out a haunting maternal wail, as Annie Graham does in Hereditary. Others opt for the
Editorials Gender Bashing April 4, 2019 Gender Bashing: AUDITION’s Asami, 20 Years Later A few weeks ago, the trailer for Mary Harron’s latest film dropped. By the looks of it, Charlie Says endeavors
Editorials Gender Bashing March 7, 2019 Gender Bashing: What it Means to Be a Man in DOG SOLDIERS Dog Soldiers is feminist. Hear me out. In his 2002 horror film, writer-director Neil Marshall (who is currently helming the
Editorials Gender Bashing News February 7, 2019 Gender Bashing: The Penetrating Power of THE LOVED ONES “When the hitchhiker in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre slits open his hand for the thrill, the onlookers recoil in
Editorials Gender Bashing January 3, 2019 Gender Bashing: Exclusive Feminine Crisis in THE BLACKCOAT’S DAUGHTER Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Blackcoat’s Daughter. Please read this article after you have seen the film. Most
