In an interview with The Advocate, directing duo Los Javis, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, discuss their film La Bola Negra, which follows Sebastián (Guitarricadelafuente) as he is swept into the fascist army and falls for Rafael Rodríguez Rapún (Miguel Bernardeau), the partner of poet Federico García Lorca.
Drew Burnett Gregory and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya ranked every canon Chucky film for Autostraddle's Two Lesbians Rank series in October, placing Bride of Chucky at No. 2 and the 1988 original Child's Play at No. 3. The list credits screenwriter Don Mancini, who wrote every canon film from 1988 to 2017 and created the 2021–2024 show, for the franchise's thematic consistency, and highlights Jennifer Tilly's arrival in the fourth film.
Studio Heartbreak's 15-minute crowdfunded mature film The Lovers, a mermaid yuri set in the Philippines, has drawn over 2.6 million YouTube views and largely positive online chatter. The review praises its art, story and characters, and its ending, in which Sara frees the sirena and kisses her underwater, while noting the sirena's uncovered chest.
Rachel Talalay's Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, the only Nightmare on Elm Street film directed by a woman, doubles down on the franchise's themes of parental abuse and neglect. The film opens in a Springwood with no children left, following the last teen, John Doe, and Dr. Maggie Burroughs back to the town. Its "troubled youth" — Spencer, Carlos and Tracy — are shaped by their parents' abuse, not their own choices.
Autostraddle's Sunday Quiz asks readers which lesbian horror movie they are living, prompted by scenarios like an ex dating an ex, a shirt cropped too much, or a dog hating a girlfriend. The quiz frames such predicaments as grounds for "compensation" in the form of the quiz itself.