Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and the Struggle for Agency

Coming October 31 from The Seventh Row: Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and the Struggle for Agency. Discover some of the best female-centred horror films of the decade and how they’re pushing the genre forward.

The collection features Mike Thorn’s essay “‘No Desire If It’s Not Forbidden’: Dread, Eroticism, and Text Messaging in Personal Shopper,” an interview with Personal Shopper director Olivier Assayas, and contributions by Orla Smith, Elena Lazic, and Mary Angela Rowe, among others.

October 12, 2019 0

Mike Thorn reviews Only Pretty Damned for FreeFall Magazine

Mike Thorn reviewed Niall Howell’s debut novel Only Pretty Damned for FreeFall Magazine (volume 29, no. 2).

Check it out.

September 16, 2019 0

Cinematary Dialogue with Andrew Swafford about Lords of Chaos

I had a good time discussing Lords of Chaos with Andrew Swafford for Cinematary. Among other things, we delved into the film’s dealings with black metal, representation vs. reality and fascism. Check it out.

March 11, 2019 0

Guest panelist on Slicin’ Up Eyeballs podcast, Part 2

Autumn and Jake of the Slicin’ Up Eyeballs podcast invited Justine Peres Smith (National Post, Ebert, Little White Lies), Scout Tafoya (Ebert, Los Angeles Review of Books) and me to discuss our favorite films of 2018.

Part 2 is now up. Hear our top 5 picks.

Listen to part 1.

February 23, 2019 0

Guest panelist on Slicin’ up Eyeballs podcast

Autumn and Jake of the Slicin’ up Eyeballs podcast invited Justine Peres Smith (Ebert, Little White Lies, National Post), Scout Tafoya (Ebert, Los Angeles Review of Books) and me to discuss our favorite films of 2018.

Listen to part 1.

February 3, 2019 0

Re-Fear: Halloween (2007) / Halloween II (2009) by Rob Zombie

To celebrate Halloween, Nathan Smith and Mike Thorn wrote a dialogue about Rob Zombie’s Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009) for Cinematary.

Read it here.

October 31, 2018 0