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talk theory to me | PhD candidate in Screen Cultures at Northwestern, Chicago IFF After Dark programmer, lover of pink furniture, Kristen Stewart filmography completionist, & part-time pin maker @vvitchroom
And now the artist has joined us on Bluesky! Go follow @badboysonly.bsky.social she’s amazing
omg thank YOU for giving her the fame she deserves
I got a tattoo of my beautiful beautiful mannequin, I am officially a crazy mannequin lady and tbh I’m considering adding her name in a fancy script to the tattoo because I love her
Had a bloody great time talking about Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Blood Trilogy, film history and history in film, and the relationship between art, consumer desire, and capital on the latest episode of Horror 101 with Dr. AC
Last year I listened to Issues on the way home from New Year’s Eve, this year I unintentionally put on Follow the Leader. Something about marking the passing of time that makes the enduring appeal of Korn particularly palpable for me
feeling the urge to flee like never before. where should I fantasize about running away to?
btw I also have an etsy where I sell stickers, pins, patches, etc. that I designed based on horror and cult films I like and there’s a sale now through the 1st
Honestly super jealous of the nonexistent students taking the “Nonhuman Feminisms on Screen” class I’m developing a sample syllabus for like damn they’re watching The After Hours and FKA twigs’ visual EP M3LL155X??
Sorry to keep you waiting! It was delightful, the best possible way to watch the Saw movies is to really try to break time apart by only taking a maximum of two 30 minute naps over the course of two days. Most people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not me. Not anymore 🪚
Tonight into tomorrow I will be attempting to marathon all ten Saw movies, plus the short if I’m brave. Let’s see how much I appreciate my life on the other side of this 🤞🏻
Would love to be included!
And of course, a deep dive into my favorite franchise, the Saw movies, in which I make a bid for calling Amanda Pigsaw and get very excited about temporality and narrative structure
For the 10th anniversary of It Follows (one of the movies that made me want to get a PhD in movies) and The Babadook
Another roundtable talking about one of my favorite films, Blood and Black Lace (1964), alongside Amer (2009), and thinking about the role of gender in gialli
Talking Curtains/Psycho II (both from 1983) and making all sorts of far-fetched connections between the two
Musings on the current wave of Frankenstein adaptations, Part 2 (in which I get very earnest about the power of co-creating each other)
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Musings on the current wave of Frankenstein adaptations, part I
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Just putting it out there that I’d love to write essays for physical media releases and/or do audio commentary. Linking some publicly available essays and roundtables of mine below — I have much to say about gender, gialli, reanimation, movies about movies, and body surrogates
Even more so in person
This is my mannequin, Marsha, named after the protagonist of the 1960 episode of The Twilight Zone “The After Hours,” which kicked off my current research project
Hello to my many new followers! I’m a PhD candidate in RTVF at Northwestern, finishing up my dissertation on nonhuman flesh & technologies of the human. When I’m not taking pictures of mannequins for “research,” you can find me extolling the virtues of the Saw movies, collecting Twilight DVDs, etc…
Got to talk Curtains, Psycho II, and movies about movies on Horror 101 with Dr. AC