One of the most fascinating developments to keep tabs on in genre film is the push to diversify storytelling at a large scale. As long as horror continues to exist, there will always be chain saws, monsters, gore, and all the other tropes we’ve come to associate with the genre. But now more than ever, there is ample room to experiment with depicting less traditional but all-too-real social horrors like oppression, injustice, and a general lack of power.
But something changes when Hunter finds herself with an odd compulsion: to eat a thumbtack and swallow it whole.
“I became the devouring mouth of mythology. Oh, they had called me unsavory. A dirty dish who desired and was desired. But I had to have my cake and eat it too. It was no longer good enough to wander in uncertainty. Chaos became my battle cry. I said with other women we were able to taste our own textual body. We would not be vomited out. It was a tough battle.”
