Tag: Queer
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By Josie Allen For as long as Jennifer’s Body has been around, it has invited discourse surrounding feminism and homosexuality. The 2009 horror-comedy stars Amanda Seyfried as Anita ‘Needy’ Lesnicki, the film’s wallflower protagonist, alongside Megan Fox’s Jennifer Check, the alluring cool-girl best friend. When Jennifer is abducted by an indie rock band called Low…
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by Isabelle Cocozza Lost Reels, founded and run by Geoffrey Badger, hosted an all dayer at The Cinema Museum in September, named Women on the Edge. The programme contained a selection of sought after 35mm celluloid rarities that feature women in precarious life circumstances or mental states. The films selected were Micheal Winterbottom’s Butterfly Kiss…
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By Adam Page Are we sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. I want to tell a story about a woman. A woman who eats dog shit on camera and means it as a thesis statement. Not as a joke, or a gross-out gag for the midnight crowd, although it certainly is that, too. As a thesis,…
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by Aninda Provati The LGBTQ+ community has long been fascinated with the horror genre even when it was hard to see the perfect representation in mainstream films back then. Directors started adding queer subtexts to their films, but they were used mostly to create the villains, the terrifying monsters out for blood. Queer fans soon…
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by Evie Johnson The lulling summer sun and a knife-wielding masked murderer. These are the films that remind us just how terrifying broad daylight can be. A secluded space, limited suspects and an atmosphere reminiscent of Lord of the Flies’ youth-induced chaos are all components of the summer camp slasher, a subgenre which continues to…
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by Amal Brepotra If you’re anything of a cult film enthusiast, then Salome is a name you’ve probably heard of. If it isn’t, then it most certainly will be soon enough. From Alla Nazimova’s and Charles Bryant’s 1922 silent reimaging to Oscar Wilde’s once-forbidden play, the biblical figure of Salome has fledged across cinema reimagings…
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by Adam Page Any honest conversation about body horror has to start in one uncomfortable place: with the recognition that the flesh was never really ours in the first place. It never was. It’s a collaboration between everything that wanted something from you before you had a name for wanting. Your nervous system is a…
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by Ros Tibbs Pushing transgressive, Queer, anti-establishment and punk art into the filmic spotlight, legendary cult director John Waters proved his status as a culturally significant filmmaker when he kicked off the 1970s decade with 1970’s Multiple Maniacs, an independent black-comedy starring the director’s muses Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Edith Massey,…
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by Adam Page At the end of David Cronenberg’s Crash, James Ballard climbs down into the ditch where his wife Catherine lies bleeding in the wreckage of a car she has just driven off a motorway overpass on purpose. He cradles her, asks if she’s alright. She is. He says: “Maybe the next one, darling.”…
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by Amal Brepotra Situated amongst sleek apartment complexes within a subdued business district of Hackney, you’ll find the enlightening Finch Cafe – an easy to spot eatery and event space thanks to its behemoth yellow-birded mascot painted on the blue-soaked sign outside its doors. This is a place far beyond the standard hang-out spot most…
