I can't say I entirely understood what was going on here, but here are a few things that stood out:

1. The killer targets queer people, and trans women in particular. He can disguise himself in order to infiltrate the community, but his true face is a riot-cop mask. There might be another, more eldritch face under that one.

2. After 9/11, New York is a night-place full of secrets: a corporate cult, a neon green glow, a threatening moon,…

Paradise Hills begins on a deeply unsettling note: a new bride in the center of a lavish ballroom, singing to her new husband about her new role in life. "I'm yours to keep, your servant," she begins, her voice unpolished and unassuming. "I'll cater to you, all your needs." She slowly rotates as attendants circle her like a maypole, holding strands of her enormous veil. Horizontal strands of gold wire strung with pearls cover her face like a cage. The…

2021 Queer Film Challenge #17: a film by Silas Howard.

This is Americana. Not the mom and apple pie kind, not the eagles and guns kind, but an anarchist Americana of outsiders, like a queer John Dos os for the 21st century, or Gregg Araki on a budget of Ziploc bags full of quarters. I'm talking punk rock and minimalist country blues, neon signs and surveillance cameras, petty theft and gay bars. Here in the US a car represents freedom,…