the first openly transgender male actor in a major horror franchise film? in MY favorite franchise?
dope as hell, and movie ain’t too bad either. in fact, despite knowing full-well that it is the World Premiere Buzz speaking through me right now, i cannot think of anything majorly wrong with this movie. 90 minutes of the pedal to the floor. this is a grand slam
full spoiler-free review on the transgender horror patreon. thoughts on the transgender evil dead phenomena here
i have to acknowledge that, as someone actively curating a very specific angle of queer horror history, i have a really weird, unique angle that i came into this docuseries with. my experience will not be yours.
it’s a fine celebration of queer horror, but an abject failure of a documentary and bewilderingly shallow as an educational tool. it also egregiously fails it’s transsexual/non binary/viewers who are in any way outside of the cisgender classification in favor of glossing over everything with a vaguely “queer” sheen. it doesn’t even mention fucking sleepaway camp.
perhaps the closest we’ve ever gotten to a textually transgender werewolf that never fully dedicated to that text. at its best when it’s about gender and dykeishness (and, eggs?), teeth-grindingly agonizing when it has to be a drama about anything else
oh my goddddddd the ultra hd blu-ray looks so fucking incredible. the script and performances remain so incredibly strong but this is the first time you can see how genuinely beautiful and well-shot the whole thing is. the colors! oh my god the colors. shaking all of you as hard as i can to please watch this in the best possible quality asap. genuinely one of my favorite movies of all time there is just so much to love
missed the brief handjob scene the first time around. glad i caught it on the rewatch with my mother.
