Makenzie McNeill
How THE BABADOOK Became a Gay Icon — Practically Overnight!
Jennifer Kent’s 2014 film THE BABADOOK is one of the best in modern horror. It’s an achingly sad tale of a single mother’s struggle to cope with the loss of a partner, the erratic tantrums of her now fatherless child, and subsequent damages to her psyche — all of which manifest in the towering boogeyman […]
Alan Kelly
Euro-Sleaze: Landmarks in European Queer Cinema
The blame for my indoctrination into the human despair, psychological violence and sadistic glee of European Queer Cinema lies entirely with French writer, filmmaker and rape-survivor Virginie Despentes. In my boyhood I went along to a screening in Dublin’s IFI (Irish Film Institute) of her vengeance-themed and violently pornographic BAISE-MOI. The tagline piqued my morbid […]
- 120 Days of Sodom
- Alain Guiraudie
- Baise Moi
- Calvaire
- cannibal
- Cemetery Man
- Cinema
- Classic
- Cult
- Dellamorte Dellamore
- Eurocine
- Europe
- Eurosleaze
- Funny Games
- Ghosted
- Grimm Love
- History
- Homoeroticism
- horror
- Jess Franco
- LGBT
- LGBTQ
- Martyrs
- Michael Haneke
- Michele Soavi
- Ordeal
- Pascal Laugier
- Pasolini
- Queer
- Salo
- Stranger by the Lake
- Virginie Despentes
Alan Kelly
Queer Horror Novels That Should Be Movies or TV Shows
There are a number of high-concept, cross-genre books that have made the translation from the printed page to film or television over the last few years. While some LGBTQ-interest shows have been critically lauded, like Bryan Fuller’s prequel to Thomas Harris’ pre-existing franchise HANNIBAL, it didn’t become a ratings hit like other adaptations THE WALKING […]
