Jun 11

Jun 11 [Pride 2019] Don Mancini's Queer Inclusion

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Vincent Bec looks at Don Mancini’s queer inclusion in the Child’s Play series, particularly as it relates to the concept of being GenderQueer and non-binary genders.

Jun 10

Jun 10 [Pride 2019] “Where’s the dick in my horror?!”: Thoughts on Queer Spectatorship and Desire in Horror

Joe Lipsett

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Joe Lipsett discusses the complicated nature of nudity in horror films from a queer perspective.

Jun 9

Jun 9 [Pride 2019] Two Angels: The Mutant Body in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past

Murphy Leigh

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Murphy Leigh tackles mutant bodies in the X-Men movies and about the inability for some mutants to pass as humans.

Jun 8

Jun 8 [Review] The Skin of the Teeth

Terry Mesnard

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The Skin of the Teeth is an gay fever dream…but that’s not a good thing in my opinion.

Jun 8

Jun 8 [Pride 2019 Short Story] A Bright and Bloody Becoming

Dylan Pierce

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Paulette Pierce has a short story to share with you today. So grab some coffee and huddle up. It’s time to get spooky.

Jun 7

Jun 7 [Pride 2019] Fright Night and The Sexual Awakening of a Queer Woman

BJ Colangelo

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BJ Colangelo discusses her attraction to Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night (1985) as a catalyst for understanding her own sexuality.

Jun 6

Jun 6 [Pride 2019] I'm Gay for Horror

Señor Scary

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Señor Scary (aka Jerry Robredo) gets personal as he discusses what horror meant to him growing up and how he found his voice through horror.

Jun 5

Jun 5 [Pride 2019] Double Lives: Coded Queerness in The Twilight Zone

Elizabeth Erwin

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Elizabeth Erwin examines the queer-coding in The Twilight Zone’s episode “In His Image.”

Jun 4

Jun 4 [Pride 2019] In the Closet with Laura Palmer

Alexander O'Connor

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Alexander O’Connor discusses how Twin Peaks’ Laura Palmer helped him understand himself.

Jun 3

Jun 3 [Pride 2019] Shove it Down Their Throats - Why Queer Representation in the Media Matters

Trace Thurman

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Trace explains why queer representation matters in the horror genre by looking at Happy Death Day.

Jun 2

Jun 2 [Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness

Alejandra Gonzalez

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In our first Pride 2019 article, Alejandra Gonzalez praises Clive Barker’s Hellraiser for its representation of the spectrum of sexuality.

Jun 1

Jun 1 [Pride 2019] I Need Your Help for Pride 2019

Terry Mesnard

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It’s Pride and I need your help. All of the details are here: Writers, new art, a 30 day code for Shudder and a very important fundraiser.

Apr 7

Apr 7 [Recap] Now Apocalypse: "Stranger Than Paradise"

Terry Mesnard

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Now Apocalypse is getting “Stranger than Paradise” in the fifth episode, that starts to bring everything all together. It’s all connected.

Mar 31

Mar 31 [Recap] Now Apocalypse: "The Downward Spiral"

Terry Mesnard

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The gang’s relationships and professional lives starts to spiral out of control and Terry discovers the meaning of biogenetic samples. Come with me on this Downward Spiral, won’t you?

Mar 24

Mar 24 [Recap] Now Apocalypse: "The Rules of Attraction"

Terry Mesnard

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Who else wants to lick frosting off of Ford’s hairy chest?

Mar 17

Mar 17 [Recap] Now Apocalypse: "Where Is My Mind?"

Terry Mesnard

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Lizardmen! Aliens! Beyoncé! Hairy butts! And….Henry Rollins?? The second episode of Now Apocalypse spirals down some rabbit holes. I always knew Beyoncé was too good to be of this earth, but a lizardwoman? Find out in my recap…

Mar 10

Mar 10 [Recap] Now Apocalypse: "This is the Beginning of the End"

Terry Mesnard

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In this first episode recap, we meet our four lost souls, trying to make it in LA. What follows is a lot of sexy time and apocalyptic foreshadowing. Oh, and a lizard…thing. Read on!

Mar 1

Mar 1 [Semi-Review] Now Apocalypse: The First Half

Terry Mesnard

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The first five episodes of Now Apocalypse are a sexy, funny and fun examination of the apocalyptic dating scene in LA, with hints of a darkening conspiracy on the horizon.

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