SENSUAL TERRORS

Jennifer's Body (2009): How younger queer viewers are engaging with the cult classic

Bloody, sexy, campy, pink: Jennifer's Body is a critical part of the sapphic canon and required viewing for horror lovers.

Jul 1 •

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9 queer horror movies that aren't necessarily about being gay or trans

These horror movies aren’t necessarily about being gay, but they *are* gay as hell.

Jun 12

Sinners (2025) drums up rich music history & the spirit of rebellion in the South

Blues is the perfect genre around which to center a story about transmuting your pain into art. "Sinners" also dredges up music histories that are so…

May 22 •

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The real-life horrors of being Black are ever-apparent. Are you watching?

What do a haunted hayride, a White celebrity wedding and the NICU have in common?

May 18 •

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7 Black cinephiles on Sinners' impact

Black cinephiles, Southerners, historians and sociologists to the front: Here's what Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025) means to us.

May 2 •

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GUT REACTIONS: As a young Black journalist, Opus (2025) hit too close to home

Existing in newsrooms where extractive, anti-Black behaviors are condoned and normalized creates a hypervigilance in us Black journalists. We're forever…

Apr 17 •

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Why (evil) twins freak us out

From "Us" to "The Parent Trap" to "Dead Ringers," we're obsessed with twins. Why is that? And what does that say about us?

Apr 3 •

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My Nosferatu (2024) critique went viral on Reddit — here are all the horny responses

Beyond horniness, the conversation turned to morality and the politics of deviant sexual desire.

Mar 21 •

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'Bone-deep dread': Yah Yah Scholfield talks Afro-gothic film & their debut novel

Welcome to the weekly dispatch, SENSUAL TERRORS: musings on creativity, movie culture, and some strange bits of life.

Mar 14 •

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Movies about the Black American experience that don't center slavery

We can talk about racism through the lens of horror, but I'm over the trauma porn made for White audiences.

Feb 28

Perverse romanticism in Nosferatu (2024)

Since December, pervert girlbloggers, dark smut Booktokers and chronically online horror heads have all weighed in: Are Count Orlok and Ellen Hutter…

Feb 21 •

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BONUS: Gnawing the bitter fruit of Valentine's Day

On post-Trump angst and dating nihilism ahead Valentine's Day — but make it sexy.

Feb 13 •

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