Image: drawing of the Mississippi State Institution.
In doing some research on the trope of asylums in horror, I found this excellent article on Nursing Clio on the problems with using “insane asylums” for ghost hunting and ghost tours: (more…)
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Feminist Halloween 2017: Day 24: “Ghosts are Scary, Disabled People are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum”
Posted in Feminist Halloween, tagged asylum, disability, ghost hunting, horror tropes, mental illness on 2017/10/24| 2 Comments »
Feminist Halloween 2016, Day 23: Movies That Missed the Mark: The House on Sorority Row
Posted in Feminist Halloween, Uncategorized, tagged disability, horror films, The House on Sorority Row on 2016/10/23| 1 Comment »
I decided to watch The House on Sorority Row (1983) because I confused it with some other better-reviewed slasher movie of the era with a forgettable name (Black Christmas, 1974) that also took place in a sorority house. Welp. Like The Moth Diaries, it alternated between brilliant, dull, and problematic.
Image of The House on Sorority Row: the sorority sisters, who are in their nightgowns/slips/pajamas, toast with mugs to graduating]
Spoilers ahead.
Feminist Halloween, Day 15: “Women with Disabilities: The Undiscussed Horror Staple of Female Characters”
Posted in Gender, Halloween, Media, tagged disability, horror, horror films on 2014/10/17| 1 Comment »
In the course of doing this series of posts, I discovered Bitch Flicks and BJ Colangelo of Day of the Woman in my search for feminist horror analysis by horror fans. Today, I’d like to share with you Colangelo’s post “Women with Disabilities: The Undiscussed Horror Staple of Female Characters,” which discusses the trope of how and why women characters with disabilities are used as plot devices.
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