What might be possible if all women, and their allies of other genders, stood together? What would violent, penetrative, power-mad men do then? In the first act of David Gordon Green’s Halloween, Allyson (Andi Matichak)—granddaughter of John Carpenter’s original film’s Final Girl, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis)—asks why Laurie can’t just move past her trauma. […]
Even when a viewer recognizes a typical horror-movie beat or a tired trope, even when the story seems predictable, the deeper questions of identity and agency remain. When I saw Hereditary a week into its theatrical run, professional film critics and fans had already called Ari Aster’s movie the scariest piece of American cinema since […]
We, or at least I, need to let go of the idea that self-care has to look good on Instagram in order to be legitimate. So I was having an anxiety attack the other morning. (I start a lot of conversations this way these days.) My partner asked me what I needed for an emotional […]
