gothic horror

The Campy Delights and Dicey Racial Politics of ‘The Skeleton Key’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

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After spending the last few weeks on J.A. Bayona’s ghost story The Orphanage (listen), Jack Nicholson’s commanding performance in George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (listen), and a timely discussion of James Whale’s Frankenstein (listen), we needed some mid-aughts comfort food. Enter Iain Softley’s 2005 film The Skeleton Key, a Southern Gothic tale about Caroline (Kate Hudson), an impressionable […]

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Five Gothic Horror Movies to Stream This Week

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Atmosphere plays a crucial role in Gothic Horror in a way that complements Fall well. That’s also reflected in Gothic horror’s themes of death or good versus evil, made more ominous by gloomy settings filled with dark passages, cobwebs, and hidden secrets. Crumbling interiors filled with ghosts and skeletons in the closet match the protagonists’ […]

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