The Cutprice Guignol

Hi! I'm Lou, author of horror, lesbian romance, and erotica. 18+ only please!

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Movie Review: The Long Walk

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The Long Walk, I have to admit, is pretty much the last Stephen King book I ever expected to see adapted.

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How Everyone Else Burns Finds Comedy in the Cultish

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I think we can all agree that there's nothing funnier than a bit of religious fundamentalism.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Bisexuality

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Look, I’m not saying nobody in the history of ever has faked bisexuality, but I’ve yet to meet them if they have (and, if they are, it’s probably because we have excellent donuts at the Bisexual Weekly Coven Meeting). 

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Internet Horror Has Gone Mainstream (For Better or For Worse)

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Well, it’s official: internet horror has gone mainstream.

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A Foul Frolic Through Fantasy Horror

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Ferocious fairies, foulness, and freaky masks - let's talk about some of the best of fantasy-horror cinema!

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The Sprawling Horror Collaboration of the SCP Foundation

So, for Halloween season this year, I wanted to write a little about one of my favourite mediums for modern horror – the internet. I’m going

With an SCP movie in the works, let's talk about the fascinating history of the SCP foundation - and how it became one of the biggest collaborative horror projects of all time.

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Summery vibes ✨️

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The Atrocious Turn-of-the-Millennium Horror of Urban Gothic

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British anthology horror has a long and storied history on TV – from Late Night Horror to A Ghost Story for Christmas to Inside No. 9, the small screen has long been home to plenty of brilliant original horror stories. And, of course, some complete and utter shite. And speaking of…

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Movie Review: The Last Viking

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The Last Viking Trojan-horses a deft story about abuse, trauma, and identity via the most absurd comedy you'll see all year.

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“Please Don’t Let It Disturb Your Performance Tonight, But Consider Yourself Under Arrest”: The Captive, the Wales Padlock Act, and the Cens

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When the curtains opened on the first Broadway performance of The Captive in 1926, audiences were enthralled – but they could never have imagined that the cast would face arrest a mere matter of months later, and usher in a new act aimed at censoring “sexual perversion” from Broadway stages.

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Directrospective: David Cronenberg’s Best and Worst Movies

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How strange does your work have to be when the only adequate short-hand label for it is your own name?

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Disability, Domestic Abuse, and the Death of Lacey Fletcher

Please note that this article will contain graphic discussions of neglect, extreme physical injury, and domestic abuse.

When emergency services responded to a call from the Fletcher residence on January 3rd 2022, it would have been virtually impossible to guess what was waiting for them inside.

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CutOffMyFeet.com and the Emotional Hierarchies of Medical Crowdfunding

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On 5th January, 2002, denizens of the internet were prepared for a show they would never forget. And the star of that show was Paul Morgan, a thirty-three-year-old American man who had suffered a serious spinal injury fifteen years earlier. Morgan had spent the better part of the last year fundraising to reach a hefty target to fund the events of his livestream – during which, according to Morgan, he would cut off his own feet with a homemade guillotine in front of hundreds of viewers.

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A Deep Dive into The Queerbaiting Heist of the Century: t.A.T.u.’s All The Things She Said

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The song, which charted in the UK in 2003, remains one of the most controversial and iconic depictions of same-sex desire of the era – from the video to the lyrics to the banger tune itself, it’s been an earworm pop culture hasn’t been able to shake. More than twenty years after it first hit the charts, let’s take a look back at All The Things She Said – how it came to be, the women at the heart of the performances, and its legacy as a piece of queer pop culture history.

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The Blair Witch Project Retrospective: The Blair Witch Project

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Always time for a deep-dive on The Blair Witch Project!

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The Pussy-Boat, the Trial of Megumi Igarashi, and the Art World’s Strange Relationship with the Vulva

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There is a notable difference between the way that penises and vulvae are treated as a focal point for art – one more broadly accepted as both a part of classical and modern art, the other often diminished, dismissed, or even litigated.

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The Atrocious Turn-of-the-Millennium Horror of Urban Gothic

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The show feels like it was written by the same people creating panicked articles about My Chemical Romance leading a death cult when The Black Parade came out, a numb and almost comically tropey approach to goth and alternative culture as viewed through a lens of bloodless hand-wringing.