Women & Horror: Female sexuality and monstrosity awakens in Julia Ducournau’s ‘Raw’

Female sexuality seems to have always been closely linked to monstrosity. For example, tracing back to classic mythology, sirens were known to lure men using their inherent sexuality in order to devour them. This notion of women using their sexuality from lesser to larger monstrous and aggressive degrees is still prevalent in stories and media today. As horror critic Barbara Creed argues in her book, The Monstrous-Feminine, the connection between females and monstrosity is “almost always in relation to her mothering and reproductive functions.” Essentially, the perceived source of a female’s monstrosity is in what makes her different than a male.

Best Decades in Horror: The 2010’s and the female film directors revolutionizing modern horror

If horror storytelling were an unassembled IKEA wardrobe, women would be the scrappy DIY-er who pieces it together. From Mary Shelley’s ground-shattering Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House…

TYF’s Top Films of 2017 (So far!)

Remember how we spent a good deal of 2016 talking about how goddamn long it felt? Well, 2017 hasn’t fared much better and sometimes it’s a big reality check to realize it’s only JULY. In that time while your blood…

Movie Review: Raw

Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a deliciously fucked endurance test, one that rattles your insides and challenges you without mercy. A coming-of-age story that depicts and/or explores, among other things, cannibalism, puberty, liberation, sexual exploration, adulthood, sisterhood, terminal illness, lust, alcoholism, bulimia,…

Can You Stomach the First Trailer for ‘Raw’?

I will be the first to admit that I have a problem. I have an addiction of sorts. It’s something of an acquired taste, but I know I’m not alone. I have a persistent urge to see horror films, no…