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Eyeing Elsewhere
Hellraiser's Female Cenobite, Pinhead, and Butterball stand in front of starkly back-lit binds.

On Monsters and Ourselves

By Phillip Russell • October 25th, 2022

Hell in the Hellraiser universe reflects back to others what they struggle with the most. It’s a fluid space that changes as our own sense of self does.

Feature Story
A painting of the many-headed King Ghidorah surrounded by a hazy orange glow. The three heads are roaring into the sky.

Monstrous

By David Shimomura • October 22nd, 2022

Monsters, necessarily, cannot be “bad.” Instead, like many horrors, the true monsters are dark reflections of our anxieties and stresses.

Feature Excerpt
In a still from Jason and the Argonauts, three armed skeletons are lined up ready for battle.

Stop/Motion

By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2022

Ray Harryhausen and the magic of stop motion monsters.

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Week One: Transgressive Terrors

By Team Unwinnable • October 9th, 2022

Welcome to the Spoopy Season!

Mind Palaces
A still of Tom Hanks smirking sleazily as Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

Evil as Can Be

By Maddi Chilton • October 4th, 2022

The idea that Elvis would have been happy and healthy and long-lived if only were it not for his life-long manager Colonel Tom Parker is ahistorical.

Run It Back
In a still from The Last of England, a woman with long blonde hair wearing a wedding dress rends her dress apart while screaming in front of an open flame.

1987

By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 28th, 2022

Tayo’s back discussing two films from 1987, both by trailblazing gay directors, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys and Derek Jarman’s The Last of England.

Nonhuman Meditations
A still from Jaws featuring actor Roy Scheider in front of the mechanical shark puppet.

Tracking a Mechanical Shark

By Alyssa Wejebe • September 16th, 2022

Alyssa follows the adventures of Bruce, the mechanical shark in Jaws.

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