Rachel Barker

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Rachel Barker (she/her) is a video editor and YouTube film essayist based in Pōneke. A lover of horror, femininity and sexuality on screen, her work often explores these ideas.

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Horror and Hagsploitation

Rachel Barker reviews X, a squeal-inducing slasher filmed in Aotearoa, and what it has to say about our fears of elderly bodies.

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Film critic Rachel Barker is brought to her knees by the subtle Queer threads in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog.

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