Author: Kirsten Therkelson
Cruel Tide Beatings from Pi Kappa Sigma: Black Christmas
The next time you find yourself cornered at a college party by some white male twenty-something waxing poetic about how…
Subversion in the Original Slasher: Friday the 13th
Ah, summer camp… Truly there is nothing like the scent of marshmallows roasting over an open campfire, swimming in the…
The Exorcist: Puberty is Hell
Hello, fair readers, and welcome back to another stirring edition of The Frightful Femme. Having awoken from my deep,…
Cannibalistic Gender Dynamics: All Cheerleaders Die
Here comes the trigger warning, kids. *Both today’s column and this film contain rape. Cheerleading is one of the most…
The Moth Diaries of a Mad White Teenager
Literary analysts say that every great romantic vampire story revolves around three things: blood, sex, and thinly veiled Sapphic homoeroticism.…
Pulse: How I Learned to Stop and Love the Internet
If Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 critically acclaimed cult classic Pulse (known in Japan as Kairo) is on your watchlist, maybe cue…
Audition: How to Make a Feminist Rom-Com
This week, we here at the Frightful Femme decided to take a well-deserved break from horror and delve into a…