can you feel it?

the truth will set you free but not until it is finished with you

[legallybrunette1997-deactivated]

don’t mind me, just slamming in the back of my dragula (x)

[dearorpheus]

hi hi, here are some free horror readings/resources in pdf form and adjacent horror viewings as seen in the curriculum for the miskatonic institute of horror studies’ course on theorising horror. 

- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood ; deathdream, dir. bob clark, 1974 - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed ; possession, dir. andrzej zulawski, 1981 - when the woman looks, linda williams ; ju-on, dir. takashi shimizu, 2002 - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover ; hell night, dir. tom desimone, 1981 - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro ; rabid, dir. david cronenberg, 1977 - why horror?, noël carroll ; horror and art-dread, cynthia freeland ; cropsey, dir. barbara brancaccio, 2009

[kittie-spit]

“horror movie” by steven meisel for vogue italia

[horrorlesbians]

Probably a question with a long answer! But what are a few of your favorite woman-centric horror movies (i.e. primarily featuring women, revolving around gender politics, made for the female gaze, etc etc)?

i think it will be easier to answer this question with many of my letterboxd lists (but my Favorites are- American Mary, Helter Skelter, Ginger Snaps, and Excision)

innocence ripped out like baby teeth- teen girls possessed, monstrously transformed, and otherwise robbed of their life from a force beyond their control (the companion list to my "there's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls" list)

there’s something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls- girls who create violence or destruction out of their own boredom. (the companion list to my "innocence ripped out like baby teeth" list)

the horror of motherhood- the horrors of being a mother and trying to protect your children from overwhelming evil. the mother who turns on her child or the children who turn on the mother.

horrific sisterhood- when sisters turn on each other or a toxic relationship between sisters. either biological sisters or sisterhood as a concept.

horrific womanhood

[honeyfilmclub]

The Vampire Lovers (1970) dir. by Roy Ward Baker

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Theatre-masks, Berlin, 1990. Source

[gebo4482]

Jacob’s Ladder (1990) by FXSmith

[iilluussoorr]

Lunacy (2005, dir. Jan Švankmajer)

[weirdlandtv]

Rick Baker concept art for VIDEODROME (1983).

[devilsskettle]

stoker (2013) / sharp objects (2018)

[frankensaint]

Hannibal text post part 7

[unexplained-events]

Project: Arthropoda Iconicus Series: Timorpersonae

by Richard Wilkinson 

This series of imaginary bugs by Wilkinson is inspired by varies horror movie icons.

[strangeways-deactivated20211008]

Katharine Isabelle in Ginger Snaps (2000)

[cillians-murphy]

Women always have to put up a fucking fight.

Revenge (2017) dir. Coralie Fargeat

[nerdexpress]

The sexiest thing a man has ever said is this Bela Lugosi quote about women loving horror

[n0d0yuna]

Matthew Lillard

[statetrooper1982]

jennifer’s body | after the movie marie howe