Historical & Perpetual Bodily Horrors of Patriarchal Terror in THE UGLY STEPSISTER

Emilie Blichfeldt's Cinderella/Ashputtle adaptation gruesomely satirises the obsession with female beauty.

[Fantastic Fest 2024] The Shadows Have Much to Teach You in Dean Puckett’s THE SEVERED SUN

Puckett's story of religious control and patriarchal obsession may be set in an earlier time, but it's very much of today.

THE DEVIL’S BATH: Depression, Heteronormativity, & The Deadly Weight of Religion in 18th-Century Austria

THE DEVIL'S BATH is a painstakingly thorough look at the results of patriarchal religion and heteronormativity in 18th-century Upper Austria.

The Past is the Present: Dehumanisation & Gothic Palaeolithic Patriarchy in OUT OF DARKNESS

OUT OF DARKNESS takes us into a Gothic world of prehistory, where the original uncanny valley unfolded.

Queered Witchery & Patriarchal Wounds in HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN

A woman's pregnancy leads to body horror and a brush with the supernatural in Michelle Garza Cervera's HUESERA.

Queer Bodies/Love Surviving Patriarchal Pressure in ATTACHMENT

Two lesbians fall in love, but one of them is gripped by something sinister, turning love at first sight into a struggle for survival.