Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

12 reviews

torismazarine's review

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

driedmintleaves's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

A good variety of essays, some more academic some more personal, all enjoyable!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, Racism, Self harm, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, and Pregnancy

elysianbud's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Outing, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bellaparkinson's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Hate crime

hauntedantiqueshop's review

dark emotional funny informative inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

4.0

Me 🤝🏻 lgbt+ authors

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Cultural appropriation

These are all minor and mentioned more in passing, I can only remember one going into more detail than I would have liked. Protect your heart when reading. 🫶🏻

megnut's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

These essays make me want to reread and watch these films to connect what the writers said about each one and ask myself what I see. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Transphobia, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

thegayestghost's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

library_goth's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Biphobia, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, and Dysphoria

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

taelights's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

While I did like some of the essays in this book and found some of the topics in it fascinating, this wasn't what I expected. I pictured more of a focus on horror through a queer eye and why the authors believe certain horror movies portray queer experiences. While some of the essays focused on this I found a lot of the essays were mainly focused on the writer's personal lives with some vague connections back to the horror movies. I did enjoy this a bit but wouldn't really recommend it because of some weak essays and a lot of them being more just memoirs than queer looks at horror. 

My favorite essays (in order of book) were:

- The Girl, the Well, the Ring 

- Imprint 

- The Wolf Man's Daughter 

- Loving Annie Hayworth 

- Blood, Actually 

- Sight Unseen 

- Bad Hombre 

- Black Body Snatchers 

- Long Nights in the Dark 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

technicolorlady's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book compelled me to pick up a highlighter to mark all the parts I loved and wanted to reread easily. Wow. What a read. A must read for anyone interested in the intersection of queerness and horror.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Self harm, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Dysphoria