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The Creeps: Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) / Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)

It's an accurate title, anyway.

Oh Bondage, Up Yours: Infinity Pool (Brandon Cronenberg, 2023)

I mean, come on: Homoerotic sacrilege went out in the late '90s.

Memento Mori: X (Ti West, 2022) / Pearl (Ti West, 2022)

She danced at the Southern Hotel.

True Crime: Boston Strangler (dir. Matt Ruskin, 2023)

Journalist likes movie about journalism, film at 11

Depressive Realism: Dual (dir. Riley Stearns, 2022)

On fighting yourself.

They Are Here: The Neighbors #5

And now it's over: The last issue of The Neighbors, my comic with the wonderful and deservedly famous Letizia Cadonici, is on sale today. Go grab an issue at your local comic shop, or buy an e-reader version on Comixology and Google Play. This is the last issue, so there

School's Out

The newsletter will be back at the end of the month. Don't get too excited.

It's Underneath Us: The Neighbors #4

The day I've been waiting for is finally here! The next-to-last issue of The Neighbors, AKA my favorite issue, AKA the special-interest-indulging Goth fantasia of my dreams, goes on sale today. Go grab an issue at your local comic shop, or buy an e-reader version on Comixology and Google Play.

Through the Portal They Can Make Amends: Yellowjackets (Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson & Jonathan Lisco, 2022)

Whatever, we're blanket friends.

Born Again: Dead Ringers (Alice Birch, 2023)

The new mutants.

Surrounded: The Neighbors #3

The third installment of The Neighbors – my comic, blessed by the extremely creepy art of Miguel Mercado (on covers) and Letizia Cadonici (everywhere else) – goes on sale today. We're right in the middle of the story now, and things are picking up. Go grab an issue at your local comic

I Am a Bird Now: Hatching (dir. Hanna Bergholm, 2022)

... and bad mothers.

Rape Jokes: Tár (Todd Field, 2022) // The Perfection (Richard Shepard, 2018)

You cannot start without me. See, I start the clock.

Little Terrors: The Neighbors #2

Here we are again! Issue #2 of The Neighbors, my comic with the astonishing Letizia Cadonici, is on sale today. You can pick it up at your local comic shop, or get an e-reader version on Comixology and Google Play. If you like it, tell a friend. If you don't

Trick Mirror: RRR (S.S. Rajamouli, 2022) / Don't Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde, 2022)

You say I only see what I want to. You say I talk so all the time... so...

Pattern Recognition: Something in the Dirt (Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson, 2022)

Men will literally something something GO TO THERAPY

The Neighbors #1: A Little House in the Woods

It's here! The first issue of The Neighbors, my comic book series with Letizia Cadonici, is in comic stores today. You can also grab it on Google Play and Amazon. The final order cut-off for the next issue is Monday, April 3, so please do put in a request. Thank

Pulling the Plug: Neon Genesis Evangelion (Hideaki Anno, 1995 - 1996) // Daniel Isn’t Real (Adam Egypt Mortimer, 2019)

A few thoughts on agency, monsters, and psychological annihilation via cartoon.

A Better Son or Daughter: We're All Going To the World's Fair (dir. Jane Schoenbrun, 2021)

And you tell her to give in to the demons that possess her.

Meat Too: Fresh (Mimi Cave, 2022) // A Wounded Fawn (Travis Stevens, 2022)

"Meat Cute" was almost certainly taken.

Promising Young Women: Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu, 2022) // Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford, 2022)

Women, anger, and whose rage gets heard.

Oops, All Men! Resurrection (Andrew Semans, 2022) // Men (Alex Garland, 2022)

A PSA about the Scary Pregnant Man.

Body Genres: Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)

Meet the new flesh, same as the old flesh.

Surfacing: Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017)

He said "it's all in your head," and I said "so's everything," but he didn't get it.

Full Moon: Gemini

Debut fiction and an interview with an emerging author.

I Think You Should Leave: Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup, 2022)

Fucking Europeans, man.

Full Moon Mixtape: Taurus

Stars belong up in heaven, and earth is where we are.

It’s Not You, It’s Me: They Look Like People (Perry Blackshear, 2015) / Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz, 2014)

Multiple flagrant violations of the Bro Code.

Made to Love You: Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) / The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes, 1975)

Hey, wanna hear a white person try to prove how well they get Jordan Peele?

Stay Woke: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)

I've never expected metal ships.

Full Moon Mixtape: Aries

I must confess, I've made a mess of what should be a small success.

Strange Loop: Uzumaki (Higuchinsky, 2000) / Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, 2019)

You spin me right round, baby, right *HORRIBLE CRUNCHING NOISES*

Full Moon Mixtape: Pisces

Death and God and God and Death.

To Serve Man: Sputnik (Egor Abramenko, 2020)

In Russia, scream hears YOU.

Full Moon Mixtape: Aquarius

Replicants, aliens, and other weirdos.

Summer of Rage: MAW's First Year

Roe v. Wade, rage, and a world where the past and the future are the same place.

Full Moon Mixtape: Capricorn

A comprehensive list of the movies about which my husband has said, "hey, you should write a newsletter about this movie."

Rock of Aging: Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)

The unholy children of the night don't know how you kids listen to that racket.

The Movement: Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-Ho, 2016)

You have no idea how long it took me to find a train pun. And it isn't even good!

Full Moon Mixtape: Sagittarius

Rage USA.

Eating Out: Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)

Full Moon Mixtape: Scorpio

This is hardcore.

The Cruelty is the Point: Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955)

Full Moon Mixtape: Libra

Zoobee zoobee zoo.

Down, Boy: The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola, 2017) / The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021)

Full Moon Mixtape: Virgo

Songs about virgins and food.

Horizons: Dickinson (Alena Smith, 2019 - 2021) / The Great (Tony McNamara, 2020 — present)

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Full Moon Mixtape: Leo

So you agree? You think you're really pretty?

MAW #5: The Waves Have Come

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Full Moon Mixtape: Cancer

Cry like a baby.

The Spiral Dance: The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) / Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

Killing in the Name: Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017) / The Green Knight (David Lowery, 2021)

Now you do what they told you.

MAW #4: The Monster

Why does tragedy exist?

A Deal with God: Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2021) / mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)

Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me?

Part of Your World: Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2014)

I don't know when, I don't know how, I don't know... anything that happens in this movie, really.

MAW #3: This One's Normal

Wendy Weber, what it means to be "just a mom," and the dark undertow of wellness culture.

Just What I Needed: Titane (Julia Ducournau, 2021)

A movie that works incredibly well for its intended audience of one person (me).

The Girl with the Most Cake: Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005)

Someday, you will ache like I ache.

MAW #2: Sisters of the Moon

On Diana Spiro, feminist folk horror, and the power of the past.

Pain Doesn't Lie: Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005)

On seeing your own shape clearly.

She’s a Horror: Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981) / Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)

The Sins of Women.

Gender Performance: Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)

He ran into my acupuncture needle. He ran into my acupuncture needle SIXTEEN ENTIRELY PAINLESS TIMES.

What to Expect: The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)

It's uter-US, not uter-YOU.

MAW #1: The Abyss

On Marion Weber, sexual violence, and why the scariest things in MAW are real.

O Green World: Vivarium (Lorcan Finnegan, 2020)

On the horror of changelings.

Little Earthquakes: The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)

Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces.

Kills, Mostly Sisters: We Summon the Darkness (Marc Meyers, 2020) / Black Christmas (Sophia Takal, 2019)

Ti-Grace Atkinson was a TERF, by the way. Sorry.

In the MAW

A first look at what I've been working on. Also, some scary fish.

Summertime Sadness: The Block Island Sound (Matthew and Kevin McManus, 2020)

In which we learn I'm a sucker for a tragic fish metaphor.

Heart of Sharkness: Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)

I fought the shark and the shark won.

Queer Cowboys: An Alert That Josh Hartnett Plays a Bisexual Cowboy in "Penny Dreadful"

Yee-haw.

The Line of Beauty: Hannibal (Bryan Fuller, 2013 - 2015)

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

Epistemology of the Closet: Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore, 2004 - 2009)

A small, shadowily identified group represented the hidden, perhaps dangerous truths about a culture to itself.

The Queer Art of Failure: The NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen, 1984) / Stranger Things (Duffer Brothers, 2016 - Present)

The child is always already queer.

INVESTIGATION: Are You Emotionally Prepared for the End of "The Unborn (1991)?"

Lisa Kudrow collects a sperm cup. We don't talk about it.

Space Dadness: High Life (Claire Denis, 2018) / Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)

"It is not I who am crazy. It is I… who am Dad!!!!"

Teenage Mutant Twincest Murders: Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)

Radical technology was required.

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