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Cruel Tide Beatings from Pi Kappa Sigma: Black Christmas
December 21, 2017
Kirsten Therkelson
The next time you find yourself cornered at a college party by some white male twenty-something waxing poetic about how…
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Subversion in the Original Slasher: Friday the 13th
June 16, 2016
Kirsten Therkelson
Ah, summer camp… Truly there is nothing like the scent of marshmallows roasting over an open campfire, swimming in the…
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The Exorcist: Puberty is Hell
June 7, 2016
Kirsten Therkelson
Hello, fair readers, and welcome back to another stirring edition of The Frightful Femme. Having awoken from my deep,…
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Cannibalistic Gender Dynamics: All Cheerleaders Die
April 20, 2016
Kirsten Therkelson
Here comes the trigger warning, kids. *Both today’s column and this film contain rape. Cheerleading is one of the most…
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The Moth Diaries of a Mad White Teenager
April 6, 2016
Kirsten Therkelson
Literary analysts say that every great romantic vampire story revolves around three things: blood, sex, and thinly veiled Sapphic homoeroticism.…
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Pulse: How I Learned to Stop and Love the Internet
March 30, 2016
Kirsten Therkelson
If Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 critically acclaimed cult classic Pulse (known in Japan as Kairo) is on your watchlist, maybe cue…
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Audition: How to Make a Feminist Rom-Com
March 23, 2016
Kirsten Therkelson
This week, we here at the Frightful Femme decided to take a well-deserved break from horror and delve into a…
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