If you’ve followed me for any time at all, you know I’m a massive Julia Ducournau fan. Somehow I’ve never recommended Titane despite it being incredibly close to my heart. This is a film about a serial killer who is pregnant with a car baby and it is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. It makes me sob profusely and it makes me believe... See more

the film’s body horror is an effective metaphor for the torture traps of contemporary feminism and beauty culture, where superficial body positive marketing doesn’t square with an ever-expanding suite of digital and surgical tools for beauty optimization and modification.

As Summers notes, "horror belongs to women because we understand, on a gut-punch level, how it feels to be viewed as a monster [...] as well as how it feels to be reduced to body parts".3