kalamity

because horror is for the girlies

What does it mean to say "horror is for the girlies?" Horror is an inherently feminine genre. Who else intimately knows what it feels like to be watched, hunted? To be told from a young age to balance distrust and acquiescence, to never walk alone at night, to fear the dark and strangers? To have your body betray you, transform, become grotesque, and not your own?

As a genre, horror has always equally tortured and celebrated the co-eds, the final girls, the scream queens. A victim who feels powerless in the face of an overwhelming force, until, covered in blood, she fights her way to survival. Over the course of the story she transforms, becoming more like that which hunted her, becoming powerful. Who wouldn't choose to be a witch over a wife?

There is a meme that goes "gays be like 'my comfort movies' and proceed to list the most fucked up horror movies you've ever seen.' And you know what? The joke is right. Of course the queers find comfort in horror. We identify with The Other, we forever exist on the outside, our bodies are already 'wrong,' our desires cursed and futures threatened. The homos are never going to fault you for choosing to live deliciously.

This site is made to be simply another little horror fanzine in the long tradition of outsider nerds gushing into the void about what excites them. So indulge this annoying homosexual valley girl as she exhalts horror as a genre-- every social and religious taboo it can challenge, every injustice it can creatively convey, and even the ways it can paradoxically comfort.