KELLI WESTON

has a PhD in horror cinema and her work has been published in Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and MUBI Notebook, among others.

The versatile actress talks about her transformative collaboration with Mike Flanagan, working with her life partner Sebastián Gutiérrez, character-building, and hauntings.

May 9, 2024

The ultimate evil-kid figure presides over the first two of hopefully many Orphan films.

April 28, 2023

The cannibalistic Bones and All fortifies, and darkens, Luca Guadagnino’s habitual seductive scenarios, in which heightened stylistics often cloud sexuality.

November 23, 2022

Julia Ducournau’s feral serial-killer genre hybrid Titane seeks salvation in notions of domesticity.

October 31, 2021

The cannibalistic Bones and All fortifies, and darkens, Luca Guadagnino’s habitual seductive scenarios, in which heightened stylistics often cloud sexuality.

November 23, 2022

Julia Ducournau’s feral serial-killer genre hybrid Titane seeks salvation in notions of domesticity.

October 31, 2021

Katie Small

is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.