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Is Frankenstein hot?
Monster-lover-in-chief Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 Frankenstein adaptation gives us another excuse to thirst after undead hotties this year — and another…
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6 Black spiritualists on what Hoodoo Heritage Month means to them
On All Souls' Day, SENSUAL TERRORS passes the mic to six Hoodoo practitioners.
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AI in film & how the 'dead internet theory' may soon apply to the movies, too
It's bigger than AI 'slop.'
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Inside the queer horror book club reclaiming the genre’s monsters
Meet the horror Bookstagrammer who is creating a home for queer and trans readers.
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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.
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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.
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…
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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?
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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.
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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…
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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?
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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.
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© 2025 Caroline C.
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