About me

My name is Vannah Taylor and I am the voice behind Death Cult Mag. 

In a world where true film criticism is seemingly disappearing, it is hard to carve out space for yourself. This is the inception of Death Cult Mag. This is not just a blog, but my own platform. 

I am a lifelong horror fan and film lover, but I am late to the world of film journalism. I dropped everything I was doing halfway through graduate school to pivot towards my true passion. I did complete my Master’s thesis in Sociology, but my focus was the evolution of the rape-revenge narrative in horror cinema. 

What this entailed was analyzing how these narratives have shifted through time within the context of which wave of feminism the film was released in and tracing the evolution of this “sub-genre” within broader societal contexts like periods of war (i.e. peaks in widespread, often televised, state-sanctioned violence). This sociological approach to film analysis is the perspective that I carry into my film criticism. Hopefully, this can offer my readers a unique and nuanced view on both cult classics and new releases alike.