Willow Catelyn Maclay

Every time there's a Twitter purge, I share the link to my book. I co-authored "Corpses, Fools and Monsters" and it is about transness in cinema. People seem to like it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725695...

I wrote about Ken Russell's THE DEVILS for my reader's choice series. If you've been following this account this week then you'll already know that this is one of my favorite films. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

For my newsletter, I wrote about the depiction of Jesus Christ as man and divine in The Devils, Mamma Roma and The Last Temptation of Christ afilmdiary.substack.com/p/rock-me-se...

RTing this because it’s so damn good.

We threw our annual Halloween party last night & I decided to throw on a kind of low-effort Laura Palmer costume. One of my friends showed up as The Log Lady!

Wonderful piece - as always - from Willow. Did I already mention that everyone should be reading her? Because you should.

Some of you lucky souls can still go see the new restoration of THE DEVILS at your local cinema. Definitely make time for it if it is playing near you. Sample paragraph:

I wrote about Ken Russell's THE DEVILS for my reader's choice series. If you've been following this account this week then you'll already know that this is one of my favorite films. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

Sylvester is about to get it

On the horror film cycle that Val Lewton produced for RKO in the early 1940s and The Seventh Victim.

A necessary essay on the legacy on one of my favorite films.

The essay that we wrote on THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS for Criterion's 4k release is now online. This is a piece about Jame Gumb that addresses how the transgender perception of the character was formed. criterion-v2.herokuapp.com/current/post...

This was a really fascinating read!

HALLOWEEN H20 and RESURRECTION might be the nadir of the series. In this essay I look at these two nostalgia ridden misfires, and how they failed Jamie Lee Curtis's big return as Laurie Strode. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

Y'all I'm so fucking hype to see THE DEVILS for the third time this week at our cinema

My reader's choice essay on THE DEVILS should be up on Friday or Saturday.

Criterion's 4k edition of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is out today, and it was a great honor and privilege that I was asked to contribute to the booklet. Pick it up during their flash sale 💙 www.criterion.com/films/528-th...

Leo Johnson's sweater game

Happy Birthday to the awesome Willow Maclay! Consider this another entry in my ongoing series of critics everyone should be reading!

Highly recommend this book, I learned a lot, really engaging for anyone interested in movies. There's something about the tone of the book that I always found really respectful of the tragedy and adversity in these stories. It's a book about trans people film history clearly written with love.

My series on HALLOWEEN continues, and this time around I am looking at parts 4, 5 and 6, the nostalgic attachment to the image of Myers, how that helps cement his image in the cultural imagination, and the up and down quality of these films. www.patreon.com/willowcately...

The most important thing to glean from THE DEVILS is that no one has ever been hotter than Oliver Reed at that exact moment and the film revels in that fact.

I had a panic attack writing this and setting it up because I have a million things on my plate, and it never stops. I really really need money to move and sign a new lease. www.gofundme.com/f/a-fresh-st...

We're thrilled to announce that Sandra Wollner's #NYFF64 selection and Cannes winner EVERYTIME will have a one-week run at FLC beginning November 6! 🎟️ are now on sale at filmlinc.org/everytime

You can realistically go see THE DEVILS and YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING as a double feature this weekend & I think that's great. A very apocalyptic end of cinema feel at the multiplexes. How wonderful

Happy KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS week to film perverts everywhere!!!!!! IT IS OUR TIME!!!!!!

The other great "what the fuck is happening here?" surrealist slasher is Canada's HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT 2, which is also about the 50s haunting the 80s via the possession of our final girl by a Dead Boomer Mean Girl. There's a scene involving a rocking horse you'll never forget.

My series on the HALLOWEEN films continues with the third installment SEASON OF THE WITCH. I like when these movies get weird and go somewhere strange. This one ripples with paranoia and has a disparaging eye pointed at capitalism in the 80s. Very cool masks too! www.patreon.com/willowcately...