Virginie Sélavy

Virginie Sélavy is the founder and editor-at-large of Electric Sheep, the online magazine for transgressive cinema.

She has edited the collection of essays The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology (Strange Attractor Press) and has contributed to World Directory Cinema: Eastern Europe and the London volume of Film Locations: Cities of the Imagination. Her work has appeared in various publications, including the Guardian, Cineaste and Frieze. She hosts a monthly radio show on Resonance 104.4 FM and occasionally curates screenings.

Articles by Virginie Sélavy

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This year’s horror cinema, dissected: the FrightFest 2019 podcast

Satanic oppression was the story of this year’s UK horror film showcase – along with female survivorship, identity differences and the dangers of the internet. Hardy survivors Kim Newman, Anton Bitel and Virginie Selavy explore our latest demons in this critics’ roundtable post-mortem.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

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From the Magazine

Fantastique: the dream worlds of French cinema

French cinema has always been lauded for its works of dramatic realism, but from the medium’s earliest days a rival tradition has flourished, incorporating elements of fantasy, horror and science fiction into bizarre, atmospheric tales in which the unexplained and the supernatural intrude into reality. By Virginie Sélavy.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Deep Focus
Choose your poison: the FrightFest 2018 critics’ roundtable post-mortem podcast

Gaspar Noé’s closing-night Climax set the tone for a horror bonanza that went big on spiked drinks, ghosts, nuns and dollhouses. We locked Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy in a room to chew it over.

Friday, September 21, 2018

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Podcast: FrightFest 2017 critics’ roundtable post-mortem

A look back at the best of last year’s FrightFest with Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy.

Monday, August 6, 2018

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Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead on The Endless: “There’s something evil and dangerous that is too old to comprehend”

The low-budget cult directors of Spring have returned to their earlier time-loop fantasia Resolution with The Endless, a metaphysical mystery in which they play brothers sucked back in to a ‘UFO death cult’. They discuss the creepiness of recorded media, the science of the supernatural and their belated readings of H.P. Lovecraft with Virginie Selavy.

Monday, July 2, 2018

Interviews
Revengeance review: an anarchic animated romp through Los Angeles

This collaboration between veteran animator Bill Plympton and underground cartoonist Jim Lujan is a heady mix of irreverence, grotesque comedy and crude characters, writes Virginie Sélavy.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Reviews and recommendations
Podcast: FrightFest 2016 critics’ roundtable post-mortem

Sixtysomething movies later, Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy emerge to dissect the best and worst, darkest and weirdest of this year’s horror scene.

Thursday, September 1, 2016

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The big-top blowout – Guy Maddin at the IMAX, London 2015

The mad magpie of Canadian cinema went down the rabbit hole at London’s biggest screen with The Forbidden Room, a pulsating extravaganza of mock movie reclamation. Virginie Selavy reports on our LFF Experimenta gala, and his ensuing LFF Connects talk.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

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FrightFest 2015: Critics’ roundtable post-mortem

From crazy ladies and final girls to fables of confinement and madness and a resurgence of British grand guignol, this year’s London horror-film showcase had plenty to chew over – as Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy demonstrate.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

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FrightFest 2014 critics’ roundtable post-mortem

Anton Bitel, Kim Newman and Virginie Selavy discuss the highs and lows of FrightFest 2014, from Coherence to Altergeist and The Babadook.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

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