Confrontation on Vacation
Pretty much anytime friends travel somewhere together in a horror movie, things are going to unravel. These movies are on the fun side of this subgenre (sorry, The Descent and The Ritual - you’re not fun or queer enough for this list).
Power, Gender, and pregnancy
If you're squeamish about childbirth, avert your eyes, coward.
Tortured Religious Fanaticism, for Women!
The horror genre has always been full of freaky female religious zealots. These two movies take a more grounded approach to spiritual trauma
Cult Candy cum Caveats
Movies that require a bit of explanation before you recommend them to friends
Nightmare Logic
I don’t mean movies lacking logic through bad writing (a la Plan 9 From Outer Space), I mean movies employing the weird, lawless logic of actual nightmares. In this list we’re moving from relatively more coherent story lines to less.
Ambiguous Moms
Horror movies are full of heroic moms (shout out to Diane Freeling) and evil moms (here’s looking at you, Margaret White). The moms here are a bit more ambiguous. Are they doing a bad job, or the best they can in difficult circumstances? Are they even who they say they are?
