Trigger Warnings: Domestic abuse, gaslighting, hallucination, torture, blood and guts, extreme violence, compound fractures, police, mental health.
They said it was impossible, but here's the movie with a disability twist that might actually be too dumb to criticize. Your mileage may vary, but James Wan's Malignant is definitely going to elicit some reaction from you!
Wan is the most recent AAPI director we're highlighting this week, with a huge slew of horror and non-horror movies and a massive production company of his own in Atomic Monster, there are few genre directors with more influence...which is sort of the only reason I can imagine this movie got made at all.
Recommendations:
M3gan
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
These Fleeting Shadows
Gunpowder Milkshake
Nobody
Renfield
Banshees (from Scout Comics)
John Wick
The Seattle Underground (the actual place, not many of the other things probably named this in popular culture)
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What is Progressively Horrified?
A podcast that holds horror to standards horror never agreed to. Hosts Jeremy Whitley, Ben Kahn, Emily Martin and guests watch, read, listen to, and check out movies, tv shows, comics, books, art and anything else from the horror genre and discuss it through a progressive lens. We'll talk feminism in horror, LGBTQ+ issues and representation in horror, racial and social justice in horror, disability and mental health/illness in horror, and the work of female and POC directors, writers, and creators in horror.
We're the podcast horror never agreed to take part in.