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Horror

  • A Very Biased Ranking of Every Season of ‘True Blood’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is my own very biased ranking of all seven seasons of True Blood.   As a lover of Vampire media, I have long adored this HBO classic.   In honor of the burgeoning of Spooky Season, as September is fast approaching, I have…

  • My Ranking of ‘The Evil Dead’ Films!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is my personal ranking of all five films in the Evil Dead universe!   I have decided to do this ranking as a bit of a lead-in for Spooky Season, which is fast approaching.   To preface my list, I want to be…

  • ‘Midsommar’: A Magical Media Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is a Midsummer Monday Magical Media Analysis of the amazing Ari Aster horror film Midommar!  How perfect it is that this post will be released on June 24, which is St. John’s Day, and has been traditionally part of celebrations that have linked…

  • ‘The Craft’: A Magical Media Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is a Magical Media Analysis of the iconic cult classic witchy film The Craft.   This is probably one of the most obvious topics for my Magical Media Analysis series, due to the film’s iconic status in pop-culture and amongst witchy people in…

  • My Top 10 Favorite Female Horror Characters!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    Today’s post is going to be a fun countdown of my current favorite Female Horror Characters.   Now, I want to clarify that this is not a list of favorite final girls, as in making the list I was more focused on favorite female characters…

  • Pop-Culture & Philosophy Books

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is about Pop-Culture and Philosophy Books, a series of books produced by different publishing houses (or for that reason maybe better called a type or style of books), popular in the 2010s for analyzing popular media through a philosophical lens.   I find…

  • The Monstrous Feminine, Female Rage Icons!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about Monstrous Feminine Figures as Female Rage Icons.   Instead of focusing on specific horror films in this post, as I have in the past when discussing the Monstrous Feminine, I will be looking at different Monstrous Feminine…

  • The Monstrous Feminine & Female Body Horror Films

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is going to be about how body horror in films and the monstrous feminine are related.    In particular, I want to focus on why feminine body horror can be seen to mirror anxieties over the female body as something unknown and fears…

  • My Thoughts on ‘Lisa Frankenstein’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   Today’s post is going to be a fun and spoiler-filled review of Lisa Frankenstein, the newest film written by Diablo Cody, and the directorial debut of Zelda Williams (daughter of Robin Williams).    So, please let this be your warning if you have yet to…

  • Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    Today’s post is my analysis of the poem Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti.    I accessed the poem at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market.   Like with my other poetry analysis posts, I will be interspersing my opinions throughout the text of the actual poem! As a warning, this one…