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der samurai queer horror
April 15, 2023
From ‘Jungle Holocaust’ to ‘Rituals’, there are five underrated queer horror films you need to watch immediately.
knife + heart queer horror
September 14, 2022
From ‘Death Drop Gorgeous’ to ‘Knife + Heart’, you need to watch these four queer horror films to get in the Halloween spirit.
Grotesque
July 12, 2022
John Patterson examines Koji Shiraishi’s extreme horror ‘Grotesque’ and its surprising takedown of heteronormativity.
erotik
May 10, 2022
John Patterson looks at a deranged double feature of cannibalistic and necrophilic desire in ‘eROTik’ and ‘Cannibal’.
29 Needles
April 12, 2022
In the latest New Queer Extremity, John Patterson does a deep dive into the extreme horror film ’29 Needles’ and its perverse beauty.
extremity
March 8, 2022
From ‘Ichi the Killer’ to ‘High Tension’, these four films gave writer John Patterson a taste for the gay, extreme, and subversive.
Hallucinations
February 8, 2022
In New Queer Extremity, John Patterson looks at ‘Hallucinations’ and ‘Shatter Dead’, two shot-on-video films that grapple with queerness.
Tetsuo
December 14, 2021
Japanese cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man provides both beauty and horror in the face of bodily transformation and sexual awakening.
November 9, 2021
In the first installment of New Queer Extremity, John Patterson delves into the extreme horror film ‘Torment.;