WARNING: Major spoilers for the movie Orphan, including the twist.
Archive for the ‘monsters!’ Category
“There’s something wrong with Esther”: Disability, deception, and Orphan
Posted in disabilities, essays, monsters!, movies, tagged (pan)hypopituitarism, deafness, hearing impairment, orphan movie on July 25, 2009 | 25 Comments »
I am Lord Voldemort
Posted in essays, monsters!, video games, tagged harry potter, nonverbal learning disability on July 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
“Nearly everybody expected spectacular things from Tom Riddle, prefect, Head Boy, winner of the Award for Special Services to the School. …The next thing the staff knew, Voldemort was working at Borgin and Burkes.” –Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince p.430-1
How do you get a job in a store that sells magical artifacts? Ask the [...]
Can Child’s Play be completely scary?
Posted in essays, monsters!, movies, tagged child's play movie, killer dolls on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Oh, those terrifying symbols of normality, dolls, I thought.” –Donna Williams, Nobody Nowhere
Don Mancini, screenwriter of all the Child’s Play movies (and director of Seed of Chucky) wants to remake the first movie. From the scarce but tantalizing rumors, it sounds like a series reboot. “[U]nless we really screw it up, I think it [...]
Bad Dollies! Bad! **
Posted in monsters!, movies, tagged Charlotte!, killer dolls, silliness on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was 8, I had a killer doll for an imaginary friend–two, actually. The one that was “mine” I stole from Stuart Gordon; in my head, she was a tiny thing with a big knife who wore a yellow raincoat. In reality, she was a not-tiny My Child doll whose haunted stare seemed perfect [...]
Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear (of disability)
Posted in disabilities, essays, monsters!, movies, tagged monkey shines movie, monkeys, paraplegia on April 29, 2009 | 6 Comments »
(Trigger warning: descriptions of horror movie violence)
(Spoiler warning: in-depth discussion of Monkey Shines, including the ending).
Garbage People
Posted in disabilities, essays, monsters!, movies, tagged abuse, freeway movie, kiefer sutherland, little red riding hood, multiple sclerosis, reese witherspoon on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Note: I originally wrote this for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2006]
OMG! I’ve Found the “Transgender Agenda”!
Posted in monsters!, movies, tagged abuse, angie zapata, sleepaway camp movie, transphobia, women of color on August 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
….in a bad horror movie from the ’80s! (Who knew?)
Jack Hill’s Happy Accident: Spider Baby Essay
Posted in disabilities, essays, monsters!, movies, tagged jack hill, lon chaney jr., merrye syndrome, sid haig, spider-baby on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Image description: a black and white photo of three teenagers and an older man sitting in front of a house. From left is a girl with blond pigtails and a sundress with white stripes. On her right is a girl with long, dark hair wearing a headband and another sundress, with sleeves that come a [...]
Outlander! or, Whose Neurodiversity is it, Anyway?
Posted in disabilities, essays, monsters!, movies, words that annoy me, tagged autism spectrum, children of the corn, neurodiversity, nonverbal learning disability, outlander on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And He Who Walks Behind the Rows did say, “I will send Outlanders amongst you…and these Outlanders will be unbelievers and profaners of the holy.”
–Isaac (John Franklin), Children of the Corn
All right, go ahead and sacrifice me to your respective vegetable-god. I like Children of the Corn.
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