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

21 reviews

atuin's review against another edition

3.5

A collection of essays connecting horror films to queer peoples personal experiences. Some are better than others, but all have interesting points and most have compelling stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Self harm, Transphobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Racism

zany25's review against another edition

informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Child abuse, Body horror, Transphobia, and Sexual harassment

dragongirl271's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, and Child abuse

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

sydneynorman's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Classism, Biphobia, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Child abuse, Body horror, Blood, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Cursing

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical content, Homophobia, Transphobia, Child abuse, Biphobia, Racism, Blood, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Abandonment, and Death of parent

Minor: Fatphobia and Alcoholism

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Transphobia, Ableism, Homophobia, and Biphobia

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, and Child abuse

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Pedophilia

Additional CWs: descriptions of chronic pain, medical trauma and medical discrimination (one essay); one essay has a vivid description of child molestation

toffishay's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

An awesome collection. I learned a lot and felt a lot with all of these essays. As someone who isn't big on horror, I've come out on the other side with a new appreciation and a new lens. I enjoyed all of the essays, but my favorites were "Both Ways" by Carmen Maria Machado, "Indescribable" by Carrow Narby, and "The Trail of His Flames" by Tucker Lieberman.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Hate crime, Death, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Ableism, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, Forced institutionalization, Incest, Medical content, Outing, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, Blood, Cannibalism, Classism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Excrement, Murder, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, and Panic attacks/disorders

j_squaredd's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

3.25

As with all collections by multiple authors, some of these essays were great and some less so. I especially liked the ones over Jennifer’s Body, The Blob, Get Out, Grace, and Candy Man.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death of parent, Racism, Transphobia, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Child death, Homophobia, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Blood, Mental illness, Death, and Gore

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Pregnancy, Body horror, and Ableism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Gore, Abandonment, Murder, Dysphoria, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Mental illness