Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

6 reviews

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Transphobia, Ableism, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual assault

danimacuk's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Body horror, Self harm, Transphobia, Violence, Chronic illness, Cursing, and Bullying

taelights's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

While I did like some of the essays in this book and found some of the topics in it fascinating, this wasn't what I expected. I pictured more of a focus on horror through a queer eye and why the authors believe certain horror movies portray queer experiences. While some of the essays focused on this I found a lot of the essays were mainly focused on the writer's personal lives with some vague connections back to the horror movies. I did enjoy this a bit but wouldn't really recommend it because of some weak essays and a lot of them being more just memoirs than queer looks at horror. 

My favorite essays (in order of book) were:

- The Girl, the Well, the Ring 

- Imprint 

- The Wolf Man's Daughter 

- Loving Annie Hayworth 

- Blood, Actually 

- Sight Unseen 

- Bad Hombre 

- Black Body Snatchers 

- Long Nights in the Dark 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Racism, Abandonment, Addiction, Biphobia, Blood, Homophobia, Medical content, Chronic illness, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, Deadnaming, Gore, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, Ableism, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Self harm, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

technicolorlady's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book compelled me to pick up a highlighter to mark all the parts I loved and wanted to reread easily. Wow. What a read. A must read for anyone interested in the intersection of queerness and horror.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Biphobia, Blood, Bullying, Mental illness, Homophobia, Transphobia, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, Grief, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Violence

taleofabibliophile's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Bullying, Chronic illness, Ableism, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Dysphoria, Pregnancy, Cursing, Miscarriage, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Death, Medical content, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity and Cancer

og_tomatogirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Biphobia, Mental illness, and Pedophilia