Evil In Color: A WOC’s Response to The Banality of Skeevil

Nadia Carmon
4 min readOct 19, 2019

My response to Sady Doyle’s The Banality of Skeevil; a piece which examines the female experience through the lens of Horror.

Two days ago I read Sady Doyle’s The Banality of Skeevil; a piece which examines the female experience through the lens of Horror.

Therein she psychoanalyzes the role the 90s heart throb played in showing the full cycle of bad romance — From the daydream of love at first sight to the climax of heart break, rape or other emotional or physical violence, in films such as The Craft &…

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Nadia Carmon

Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2nd Rounder ◌ Script Analyst at Coverfly ◌ Freelance Writer ◌ Black Magic Woman www.nadiacarmon.com