Sandra Mills Cinema, particularly in those narratives written for children, regularly portrays childhood toys as supportive confidantes or treasured reminders of a character’s youth. Yet there is something about these inanimate figures that is inherently unsettling with their blank expressions and frozen limbs that eerily mimic the living. While the fantasy of a treasured toy […]
Paul A J Lewis and Peter True “You’re not having a moment, are you?” Dr Feinstone’s (Corbin Bernsen) wife Brooke (Linda Hoffman) asks her husband over the telephone after, in the grip of a psychotic episode, he has pierced a young boy’s gum during a routine dental examination. Filmed in gruesome extreme closeup, this is […]
Isaiah Frost Rivera Though the body horror canon has historically pathologized disabled, non-white, and queer people’s bodies on-screen, its explorations of the human form pushed to various extremes by monstrous forces present a valuable expressive outlet for marginalized communities in search of “stories that are not about demonizing or destroying the Other but confronting the […]