"Janice - why you out here looking like My Little Pony, girl?" There is nothing like a scary white girl. This short first premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival (and hit BAMcinemaFest) and it's finally showing on the web this year after the director ...

The biggest accomplishment of these films and others like them, Johnson contends, is that they made women’s suffering inescapable, particularly for people who were inclined to look away. Intentionally or not—the main works she discusses were all directed by men—these movies tricked viewers into absorbing much more than just schlocky thrills.

It is an exciting time to be a woman in horror. The past decade has seen women directing sleeper hits and big-budget studio films. The Substance was nominated for five Academy Awards last year, including a directing nomination for Coralie Fargeat.

S.K. Sapiano is a UK-based TV and movie writer for Collider. S.K. has a background in academia, earning a Bachelors in Film Production and a Masters in Religious Studies. Experienced in sound design, she has worked on both narrative and documentary short ...

Monsters. Gore. Fear. These things make up most horror films, TV shows, and books. But for Black women, the horror genre is about more than just blood-filled entertainment — it’s also often about exposing and moving beyond injustice. “There are ...

Slasher films (and occasionally TV shows) have been a critical and lucrative subgenre within horror for several decades. Its roots stem back to the 1920s with “madman on the loose” plots and giallo films of the 1960s. Psychological thrillers like ...

Aiming to unsettle readers and offer social critique, writers like Samanta Schweblin and Mónica Ojeda are in a new vanguard. The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin’s “Seven Empty Houses” is a National Book Award finalist for works in translation.