‘Inside’ One of the New French Extremity’s Strongest (and Bloodiest) Entries [Horror Queers Podcast]

Gimme dat baby. After wrapping up November with a look at cryptids in The Mothman Prophecies (listen), we kicked off December with a journey back into the land of giallo in Sergio Martino’s Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (listen). Now we’re heading to France to discuss everyone’s favorite […]

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Coralie Fargeat’s ‘Revenge’ Is an Informed Evolution on the Rape-Revenge Subgenre [The Lady Killers Podcast]

“Women always have to put up a fucking fight.” While the rest of North America settles in for the cold winter nights of December, The Lady Killers are heating it up with a trip out to the dry and dusty French desert. They’ll relax and unwind by snacking on seductive lollipops and dancing by the […]

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Why ‘High Tension’ Still Divides Audiences 20 Years Later

For a lot of people, Alexandre Aja‘s High Tension (Haute Tension) was their first taste of the New French Extremity. And since 2003, this French slasher has been a source of frustration for horror buffs; they feel betrayed after witnessing one of the most shocking plot twists to come out of the genre. All the […]

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Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s Previously Unreleased ‘Livid’ Comes to Shudder Next Month

In March, Shudder will spotlight the bold, visionary horror emerging from France in the twenty-first century, including essential titles from the boundary-pushing wave of films dubbed “New French Extremity.” That includes Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury‘s Livid, previously unavailable on streaming in the U.S. Livid follows Lucy (Chloé Coulloud), a young woman training to become an at-home […]

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