Editorials
Politics of Violence
Discussions of Squid Game have contrasted the series with Battle Royale, one of its successors in the genre of “death games”. The violence is usually the main subject, but the political messaging of these pieces and the genre as a whole can be ignored.
The Horrific Beauty of Sarah Kane - BLASTED
There’s still lots we don’t know about late British playwright Sarah Kane. Personal and precious stories are locked away with the people who knew her closest. There have been no formal documentaries and no permission has been given by her brother. I think it should stay that way.
The Demonisation of Queerness in High Tension (2003)
The medium of film is no stranger to the concept of queer coded or openly LGBTQ+ villains. And by extension, horror is no stranger to the concept either. Norman Bates in Psycho, Buffalo Bill in The Silence of The Lambs, Robert Elliot in Dressed to Kill and even Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw franchise, can all be said to exist as examples of how queer people, or at least the idea of queer identity, has been made out to be something monstrous…