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The zombie was actually a Haitian Vodou metaphor for slavery. For enslaved Africans in Caribbean colonies like Haiti, the theft of one's autonomy was akin to a walking death.

Forbidden Fruits is part of a burgeoning subgenre of horror movies that engage specifically with femininity and feminine aesthetics, dubbed 'girl horror' in a recent article in Rue Morgue magazine.

The film 'The Cure' features Ally Braun, a teen isolated by lupus, who befriends a mysterious girl named Brooke, leading to dark discoveries for all involved.

While John Carpenter's 1982 remake was initially dismissed as an empty, nihilistic gorefest, The Thing (née Another World) has since been reevaluated as one of the greatest science-fiction films of the '80s, and certainly one of the most influential.

The heart of The Serpent's Skin is the romance between Anna, a soft-spoken young trans woman, and Gen, a tattoo artist witch who traveled around the world to find her.

The BAIT: Honey?! I Made David Watch 'Death Spa'! I knew I'd made a mistake the moment our chief film critic David Ehrlich emailed me back.

Upon going solo after White Zombie's breakup in the late '90s, the one-time noise-rock underdog became metal's demonoid phenom with 1998's Hellbilly Deluxe, a monster mosh of horror-themed industrial-metal that spawned the generational vampiric speedway anthem, "Dragula," along with several other Halloween playlist essentials.

Dead Lover's heroine is odorous by trade, a lovelorn gravedigger of indeterminate age and origin. Glowicki's accent, roaming between Canada, Canvey Island and Canberra, becomes part of the fun—she's driven to extremes after her verse-spouting poet sweetheart perishes in a shipwreck. Part-Burke and Hare, part-Victor Frankenstein, she salvages what she can of the corpse.

I posted a rave review of the new Sam Raimi film, Send Help, the other day and triggered a debate I didn't expect: is it OK for Christians to watch horror films? Send Help a gore-laced plane-crash survival face-off, according to the Guardian review (which was less kind than mine) is more comedy-horror than horror, or maybe horror/thriller. But there's definitely horror there you get the point.

"I still can't take them,"

And now she has given these ideas a retread with this programmatic and unsubtly acted film, a scary movie about a monstrous newborn that is very much less interesting and original than Hatching; the paganism is cliched and the element of black comedy so often the alibi for not being scary in films like this is really not all that funny.

In the film, a murderous cult known as the Jimmies stalk the ruins of postapocalyptic Britain. Led by Sir Jimmy Crystal, played by Jack O'Connell, the sect are instantly recognisable for their cheap tracksuits, bleached blonde wigs and particular mannerisms. For viewers in the UK, Crystal is unmistakably reminiscent of the entertainer Jimmy Savile, whose decades-long history of sexual abuse was only revealed after his death.