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A vital new collection featuring essays by queer and trans writers on horror films, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror is now on Kickstarter ahead of its October 4th release from Feminist Press, and as a special treat for Daily Dead readers, we've been provided with an exclusive look at Spencer Williams' essay on The Blair Witch Project, featuring a unique and insightful exploration of the classic found-footage film.

You can read Spencer Williams' "Sight Unseen" essay on The Blair Witch Project by clicking the cover art below, and to learn more about It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, check out the press release and visit the collection's official Kickstarter page!

Press Release: New York, NY — Independent nonprofit book publisher the Feminist Press will launch its first Kickstarter fundraising project in August, running from August 2 until August 25, 2022: a campaign supporting a launch party...

We're thrilled to announce that Feminist Press has officially launched a Kickstarter campaign for It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, a vital new collection featuring essays by queer and trans writers on horror films, including Halloween, Hereditary, Us, Jennifer's Body, and more!

Edited by Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror is slated for publication on October 4th, followed by a launch party on October 5th at Brooklyn's 3 Dollar Bill.

We have the official press release with additional details, and to learn more, visit the collection's official Kickstarter page!

Press Release: New York, NY — Independent nonprofit book publisher the Feminist Press will launch its first Kickstarter fundraising project in August, running from August 2 until August 25, 2022: a campaign supporting a launch party for It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror.

Slated to publish on October 4, 2022, the anthology features twenty-five essays by...

Femmes Fatales Week! continues at Trailers from Hell with director Katt Shea introducing her own erotic psycho-thriller "Poison Ivy," starring a teenage Drew Barrymore."What Ivy wants, Ivy gets." Depraved teen seductress Barrymore is the houseguest from hell in Tfh Guru Katt Shea's thriller, which didn't pack them in on its limited theatrical release but became a big enough hit on cable and home video to spawn three exploitation-minded sequels. Blink and you'll miss a young Leonardo DiCaprio in a bit part.

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Women! The dangerous sex indeed. And the ladies of new Cinemax series 'Femme Fatales' are no different. This new late night anthology series about powerful, sexy and dangerous women premieres this Friday (13 May) at 11:00pm and features a whole host of delectible ladies in various storylines, some of which are intertwined. The series, created by Mark A. Altman ('Castle') and Steven Kriozere stars Ana Alexander, Catherine Annette, Tiffany Brouwer, Christine Donlon, Madison Dylan, Kiko Ellsworth, Reginald C. Hayes, Elizabeth Hirsch-Tauber, Kerry Knuppe, Stephen Macht, Will Poston and Stacy Stas and features the gorgeous host actress/model Tanit Phoenix -below ('Death Race 2, 'Lost Boys: The Thirst'). You can check out the 'Femmes Fatales' artwork below....

Nicki Minaj is in the zone. After extensive talks, E! News has learned the Pink Friday singer will be livening up Britney Spears' upcoming summer tour, replacing Enrique Iglesias as the opening act after the latter bowed out unexpectedly last month. Now you get two Femmes Fatales for the price of one. A source close to the 26-year-old Minaj confirmed to E! that she's aboard and tour organizers expect the tandem should make for a big concert draw, even more so than the Spanish crooner. Indeed, the choice of the Trinidad and Tobago-born hip-hop diva is probably for the best, given how foolish Iglesias' camp made Spears look by abruptly dropping out only hours after the pop princess...

The album cover hits with a stark black and white photo, title scrawled in lipstick red across the top. The boys appear on a white satin couch with a strange combination of high pop-star drag and ruthless street arrogance. There’s lipstick, eyeshadow and platform boots, but there’s also some sinister slipstream flowing here. Remember the earliest Stones’s publicity photos? What was scruffy and outrageous then looks so commonplace now — in ten years will this photo seem as quaint?

But the Dolls are a lot more than just another visually weird band.