Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

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

13 reviews

bridge_to_narnia's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

The connection that people had to various horror movies and their sense of self was extremely interesting. I love dissecting films into different meanings, but on my own watch through I can never think of any of the hidden meanings. Seeing other people's autopsies of their favorite movie is just a real treat.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Dysphoria, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Transphobia, Medical trauma, and Pedophilia

judassilver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Ableism, Biphobia, Self harm, Outing, Transphobia, Body horror, Violence, Sexual assault, Blood, Car accident, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Deadnaming, Racism, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Pedophilia

megnut's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

These essays make me want to reread and watch these films to connect what the writers said about each one and ask myself what I see. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Infertility, Misogyny, Murder, Death, Sexism, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Body horror, Cannibalism, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Ableism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pedophilia, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Death of parent, Gore, Addiction, Bullying, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Blood, Classism, Death, Child abuse, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, and Transphobia

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

mfrisk's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This is such a great read on the intersections of horror movies and queerness. There are a variety of stories and I look forward to the authors continuing to beach out more. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Dysphoria

library_goth's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

Moderate: Self harm, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Biphobia, Racism, Dysphoria, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, and Adult/minor relationship

taelights's review against another edition

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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

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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 against another edition

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