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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
Some of these essays were deeply moving, others a little dull. My rating is impacted by the audiobook, as some of the narrators were simply awful, with weird mispronounciations and one who read two books who's voice I just personally could not handle.
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I really really loved these essays. While there was a fair amount of thematic repetition, I really appreciated the variety that each of the authors’ unique perspective brought to this anthology. The book primarily explores the relationship between horror and othering, but it includes intersections with many other topics, too.
Some essays stood out as excellent. The rest were still very good. Except one, which was questionable enough for me to remove a star from my rating. But overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this anthology, and I can’t believe it sat for so long on my shelf unread.
Some essays stood out as excellent. The rest were still very good. Except one, which was questionable enough for me to remove a star from my rating. But overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this anthology, and I can’t believe it sat for so long on my shelf unread.
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Horror and the LGBT+ community have always been linked. Not always in obvious ways and not even always in the most positive ways. There is not a long lineage of horror films with accurate or healthy queer or trans representation, in fact a lot of horror classics come with a heavy dose of homophobia and transphobic rhetoric.
All that being said, the queer community has often found comfort and refuge in the screams and blood spatter of horror cinema. Maybe it’s a familiarity in how our own sexuality is attacked by the heteronormative society in the same way Jason attacks sexually active teens at a summer camp. Maybe it’s we can find commonality and see ourselves in the monsters of horror films when the townspeople band together to kill it simply because the monster is different. Or maybe it’s just we enjoy the sense of normalcy in the thinly veiled homoeroticism of late 80’s or 90’s films.
This collection of essays brings together different perspectives and stories of LGBT+ identities and ties them to horror films that helped shaped their understanding of themselves and the world. These stories vary from sad, happy, gut wrenching. They often feel familiar and relatable.
This is a must read if you are LGBT+, love horror, or just simply want to see this often dismissed category of film as it relates to the human experience.
All that being said, the queer community has often found comfort and refuge in the screams and blood spatter of horror cinema. Maybe it’s a familiarity in how our own sexuality is attacked by the heteronormative society in the same way Jason attacks sexually active teens at a summer camp. Maybe it’s we can find commonality and see ourselves in the monsters of horror films when the townspeople band together to kill it simply because the monster is different. Or maybe it’s just we enjoy the sense of normalcy in the thinly veiled homoeroticism of late 80’s or 90’s films.
This collection of essays brings together different perspectives and stories of LGBT+ identities and ties them to horror films that helped shaped their understanding of themselves and the world. These stories vary from sad, happy, gut wrenching. They often feel familiar and relatable.
This is a must read if you are LGBT+, love horror, or just simply want to see this often dismissed category of film as it relates to the human experience.
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Kind of a weird thing for me to read given that I’m not a fan of horror movies myself, but I stumbled into one of the essays in this collection on tumblr and I was intrigued. I very much liked the weaving together of personal narratives with the horror movies and the queer analyses of movies I wouldn’t think to think of as queer on my own, though I think these elements were better incorporated together in some essays more than others. I’m also kind of disappointed there weren’t any essays centered on an aro or ace-spec perspective, but you can’t have it all. My favorites include “Both Ways” by Carmen Maria Machado, “Twin/Skin” by Addie Tsai, “Blood, Actually” by Grant Sutton, and “Black Body Snatchers” by Samuel Autman
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This book was very interesting and made me want to watch a bunch of movies.
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"As we fucked over pet semetary that Halloween in 2015 it struck me that this too was an act of defiance."
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"As we fucked over pet semetary that Halloween in 2015 it struck me that this too was an act of defiance."