White Rose of Avalon

Body Horror

  • Films Recommendations for When You Want to Embody Coquette Energy

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be sharing some of my recommendations for films that have Coquette energy!  I always feel that the playful and flirty energy of the Coquette is very much alive in Spring, so I thought that this was an ideal time…

  • ‘The Lure’ & ‘The Ugly Stepsister’: Iconic Body Horror Films Based on Fairytales!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I will be discussing The Lure and The Ugly Stepsister as iconic body horror takes on fairytales!   Both of these stories are centered on female characters, which is common for both fairytales and horror films, and makes…

  • We Need to Talk About ‘Possession’ (1981)

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s post, I will be reviewing and analyzing, as well as unpacking the sexuality and the taboos present in the horror film Possession from 1981!   So, like most of my film reviews, I will be discussing the whole film and plot points, so…

  • We Need to Talk About ‘Together’ (2025) ~Full Spoilers Film Review~

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I just have to give a full spoiler review of the brand new horror film Together!   I saw this film with my husband on Friday, and we both had very visceral reactions to it in the best way.   Together…

  • We Need to Talk About ‘The Ugly Stepsister’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is a spoiler-filled review of the brand new Norwegian horror film The Ugly Stepsister.   I chose to include spoilers because in order to fully unpack how incredibly done the film is, I need to talk about plot points and how they…

  • Movies to Watch When You Want to Feel Like Alice Through the Looking Glass

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is another movie recommendation post based on how you want to feel.   For today’s list, I am focusing on films that make you feel like you are Alice Through the Looking Glass, and that means surrealist fantasies abound here!   This list…

  • ‘The Little Mermaid’ & the Horror of Ambition

    Welcome to day two of The Horror of Fairytales Week here at White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is also a Siren Saturday post, so what better way to celebrate that than to examine more body horror, this time from Andersen’s original The Little Mermaid?   This body horror is very different…

  • ‘Cinderella’ & the Horror of Wickedness

    Welcome to day one of The Horror of Fairytales Week here at White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This is also Femme Fatale Friday of this week, so I thought it was the ideal time to discuss the Wicked Stepsisters of Cinderella.   In particular, I will be going over the body horror of…

  • ‘The Lure’: The Ideal Mermaid Film for Spooky Season

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have decided to discuss the very fatal female protagonists of the Mermaid Horror Musical The Lure.   Yes, you read that right, this Polish Horror film is also a musical about Mermaids set in 1980s Warsaw!   The…