Killer Animal Movies

Giant bee hallucinations.  Radical cat community organizers.  Charlotte Rampling fighting an orca while wearing giant capes.  Read my latest "Friday 13" article on ChillerTV.com!  This week's topic is "Killer Animal Movies"!

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Good Actors Who Did Bad Horror Movies

Lana Turner takes LSD.  Faye Dunaway makes a nice old lady eat glass filled cookies.  John Huston must save the world from an ice skating demon child.  Read my latest "Friday 13" column at Chiller TV!!  This week's theme is "Good Actors Who Did Bad Horror Movies."

http://www.chillertv.com/friday13/13-good-actors-who-did-bad-horror

Women Against Violence Against Women

Some of you may be interested in my latest blog post at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. It focuses on The Women Against Violence Against Women special collection at UCLA, part of The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives. WAVAW was a feminist organization that protested Snuff (1976, Michael Findlay, Horacio Fredriksson, Simon Nuchtern), Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma), Windows (1980, Gordon Willis), the ad campaign for Rolling Stones' Black and Blue album, and various other films and ad campaigns during the 1970s and 1980s. The blog contains some great photos, including flyers protesting DTK and Snuff, and a photo of a protest taking place outside of a theater playing The Story of O (1975, Just Jaeckin).

Read the post here!

From The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives: Women Against Violence Against Women

13 Inanimate Objects That Love Murder

I am so excited to contribute to Chiller TV's new horror movie column The Friday 13!  Click here to read my new column, "13 Inanimate Objects That Love Murder"!

Reality Bites in 2013

When I was around 12 or 13 I traveled in a very, very small social circle in which liking any currently popular music would get you shamed, but liking Cyndi Lauper or Patti Lupone ensured social acceptability.  So in the mid-1990s my fondness for Green Day was one of my many dirty little secrets, shared with no one.  Secretly I thought that Billy Joe Armstrong was beautiful, and that I wanted to look like him.  I still sort of do.   So yesterday I was at a used CD store and I saw a copy of DOOKIE on the shelf.  I am one of the only members of my generation who doesn't own it, so I decided the time had come.  I felt very empowered.

Horror movies about graduate school speak some of graduate school's darker affective truths more clearly than any other form of discourse.  Graduate school can be scary, and I will let these horror films tell you why.  However, lest you worry, these films also carry valuable lessons to help you get through it.  WARNING: This post contains spoilers about all of these films.

On Valerie Harper....and loving somebody you have not met.

I'd already been thinking a lot about Valerie Harper, when she announced her illness a few days ago.  It started about a month ago, during a bad weekend.  I had writer's block and it was making me depressed, plus J. was away for the weekend.  This combination can get Repulsion-esque.  Desperately surfing Netflix for a cure for my ailments, I found a late '80s TV movie with Valerie Harper that I'd somehow never seen or heard of: