Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actress: Elizabeth Taylor
Category: Coded Queerness
Themes: Queer Monsters, Sexual Perversion
MonthMarch 2020
The Purge TV Series: Season 1 (2018)
Creator: James DeMonaco
Actress: Amanda Warren
Category: Sexual Harassment
Themes: Harassment, Racism
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actresses: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford
Category: Hagsploitation
Themes: Disability, Caregiving, Mental Illness
Strait-Jacket (1964)
Director: William Castle
Actresses: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker
Category: Hagsploitation
Themes: Intergenerational Trauma, Mental Illness
Cat People (1942)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actresses: Simone Simon, Jane Randolph
Category: Coded Queerness
Themes: Queer Monsters, Otherness
Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Actress: Nan Grey
Category: Coded Queerness
Themes: Queer Monsters, Vampires
Office Killer (1997)
Director: Cindy Sherman
Actresses: Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald
Category: Sexual Harassment
Themes: Harassments, Microaggressions, Trauma
Black Christmas (2019)
Director: Sophia Takal
Actress: Imogene Poots, Aleyse Shannon, Lucy Currey
Category: Trump Era Anger
Themes: Sexual Violence, Misogyny, Women in Peril
Ready or Not (2019)
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actress: Samara Weaving
Category: Trump Era Anger
Themes: Class Disparity, Gender Performance
The Invisible Man (2020)
Director: Leigh Whannell
Actress: Elisabeth Moss
Category: Trump Era Anger
Themes: Domestic Abuse, Women in Peril