The Gore Connoisseurs

Get Out 's Allison Williams and Dear White People 's Logan Browning star in Netflix's B movie Black Swan about rival cellists. Yet somehow it doesn't quite work. The main problem is a common one for ambitious horror flicks – it tackles dark, very serious themes in a superficial way. Cast your minds back to 2008's Teeth , another film with an interesting subtext that was tonally all over the place. Most people agree Teeth is a black comedy, a body horror twist on a coming of age drama. Yet the plot sees the heroine Dawn repeatedly raped by pretty much every man she meets. 2008's Teeth sees heroine Dawn repeatedly raped... yet it's still a black comedy? True, these men do get their comuppence. Dawn fortunately has a toothed vagina, so it's soon raining severed dicks. But there's something horribly grim about watching repeated scenes of sexual abuse not taken very seriously. The Perfection  needs to treat its characters with mor...

Our series on feminist horror films continues, as we take a look at some modern classics. We're going in chronological order, and exploring three of the most interesting 21st Century horror films from a feminist perspective: Teeth, Hush and The Witch . In the latest installment of our series on feminist horror, we look at a broad cross-section of what feminist horror means in the 21st Century.  4) Teeth (2007) In a sentence:  The tonally uneven story of a chastity-promising teenager who discovers she has a toothed vagina. It's perhaps one of the most misunderstood horror movies ever made. What goes down: Dawn (Jess Weixler) is the star speaker at a chastity youth group, but she's struggling to stick to her resolutions when not-so-handsome stranger Tobey (Hale Appelman) appears on the scene. It quickly turns out that Tobey isn't as benevolant as he seems, but thankfully Dawn has a secret weapon against male violence: a toothed vagina. Was th...