Deep Dives

Forgotten Females: Women in Jack the Ripper Films; Part 1: “The Lodger”

Using four key Ripper-based film texts spanning a period of over seven decades, this series will redirect the focus from the killer to the many women portrayed in these works through close reading and analysis of character, themes, and motifs.

Deep Dives

“FIRESTARTER” and the Power of Female Anger

King's under-appreciated 1980 novel is a prime example of “Good For Her” horror with lessons that can be directly applied to the fourth wave of feminism currently raging.

Deep Dives

“CASTLE FREAK” At Twenty-Five: Fractured Families and The Outsider’s Awakening

On the anniversary of the release of Stuart Gordon's most underrated Lovecraft adaptation, we take a look at its literary origins.