The Black Girl's Horror Blog
The Shining is a polarizing movie. Most people love the 1980 Stanly Kubrick adaption, but die-hard Stephen King fans feel differently. Much like King himself, they found that the movie didn’t stay true to the essence of the haunting horror thriller. Forty years later, Doctor Sleep is picking-up where The Shining left off, but horror…
The newest season of Black Mirror premiered last week and though I wasn’t exactly impressed with the season as a whole, one episode shined among the rest. The first episode titled, “Striking Vipers,” left me contemplating love, sexuality, and how they relate to black men as a whole. Needless to say, this article will discuss…
I remember the first time I saw The Craft. It was a Saturday and I was either nine or ten, flipping through channels looking for something good and scary to watch. I paused when I realized the movie was about witches, but I stayed when I realized that one of the witches was a black…
I hate escape rooms. Don’t get me wrong, I love mysteries (it’s part of the appeal of horror movies), but the thought of being locked in a room searching for contrived clues with a bunch of strangers does not sound like a good time to me. In fact, it kind of sounds like a unique…
I know. I know. You’re supposed to take your time with poetry. You’re supposed to read each line carefully, Read it out loud to hear the rhythm, note the line breaks, the enjambment, the patterns. That’s what you’re supposed to do. That’s what good readers do. Black girl’s guide to horrorbook reviewcarrie 1976claire c. hollandfinal…
It should come as no surprise that as a lover of all things horror, I enjoy movies that have a good bit of violence in them from time to time. For most of my teen years, Quentin Tarantino movies were my favorite kind because he never skimped on gushing blood or brutal fight scenes. To…
Werewolves have always gotten the shit end of the stick in the realm of monsters. They’re not as sexy or glamorous as vampires. They don’t have that haunting creepy element that ghosts have. And though I would argue that lycanism has a certain element of possession to it, they aren’t as threateningly sinister as demons…
Horror has always been the genre that examines the fears and trends in society. From a Dracula being direct representation of xenophobia and fear of sexuality to Invasion of the Body Snatchers being a response to conformity and anti-communist paranoia during the Eisenhower Era, to the entire slasher genre emerging due to teen promiscuity and…