Happy Mother’s Day! Make sure you water your plants on stable ladders, avoid unnecessary globe-trotting, and check your kid for birthmarks before tuning in to our coverage of the poster-child for being child-free by choice in 1976’s The Omen.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, infanticide, religion

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

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Sources:

• Balanzategui, Jessica. “The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s.” The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 35–66. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv80cc7v.5. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

• Berlatsky, Noah. “Hell Is for Children: The Revolutionary Politics of ‘The Omen’”. https://wearethemutants.com/2020/10/30/hell-is-for-children-the-revolutionary-politics-of-the-omen/

• The Omen (1976) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen

• Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/

A night of roleplay with a stranger from a bar ends with a homemade breakfast in a farmhouse in the woods - but this isn’t the romance you may think. Join us on a misadventure of expectations in 2023’s Strange Darling.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual violence & assault

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Sources:

• Strange Darling Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Darling

• Strange Darling IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22375054/

• Ex Machina, Derek. "’Strange Darling’ Review: A Modern Classic Thriller that Brilliantly Deceives its Audience.” Derekexmachina.com. https://www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2024/8/28/strange-darling-review-a-modern-classic-thriller-that-brilliantly-deceives-its-audience

What do you get when you cross the DNA of a human, salamander, kangaroo, fish, stingray, and bird? A very twisted encore to body horror month with 2009’s Splice.

***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, incest, domestic abuse, forced pregnancy, death of an animal

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Artwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)

Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProd

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Sources:

• Splice IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017460/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_splice

• Splice Review by Steven Shaviro: http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=895

  Splice Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_(film)