It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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Horror is INNATELY queer, and the discussion within this text highlight that perfectly AND beautifully (like there were some sections that had me tearing up. It Came from the Closet collects twenty-five takes on twenty-five horror films that make us cringe, crack up, turn away and turn back again—each piece lavishly queer in its intelligence, vulnerability, and wit. Manages to strike the balance between in-depth, heartfelt discussions of queer identity and the coming-of-age stories of people across the spectrum with a sense of humour and lightness of touch.

Zapadł mi w głowę prześwietny esej osoby agenderowej na temat postrzegania ciała i seksualności, bardzo egzystencjalny w wydźwięku; co ciekawy, był to jedyny esej, w którym pojawiło się słowo „aseksualny”, a to i tak tylko przy wyliczaniu postaw wobec seksu.Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. A must-read for horror fans who may gain a whole new outlook on some of the all-time classics and cult favorites covered in its pages.

All in all — nie odradzam; wręcz przeciwnie, jeśli ktoś, tak jak ja, kocha horrory, to na pewno znajdzie tu sporo dla siebie. This was simply fantastic, a collection of intimate essays contemplating classic horror films through various lenses of queerness. Looking back at this, four of the essays that were my most favorite were about films I had seen before, 2 were about films that I would consider new favorites after watching them in anticipation for this collection, and 1 was about a film that I would consider my LEAST favorite film out of all those mentioned in this collection. Whip-smart, honest, and hilarious… gore aficionados and reads-the-Wiki-plot-summary scaredy-cats alike will find something haunting to love within its pages. Exploring a multitude of queer experiences from first kisses and coming out to transition and parenthood, this is a varied and accessible collection that leans into the fun of horror while taking its cultural impact and reciprocal relationship to the LGBTQ+ community seriously.An impressively diverse array of queer voices contributes their opinions on how and why particular horror movies made a personal and indelible impression on them. The movie inclusion was more like a gimmick so this wouldn't be 'just another nonfiction queer memoir essay collection' rather than an an actual component when it came to writing the essays, at least the ones I read.