The Substance (2024)
Hot girls hate scary beauty standards.
Further reading: Sarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X – another surreal look at how women’s bodies are viewed, treated and experienced.
X (2022)
Hot girls are obsessed with Mia Goth (and her denim dungarees).
Further reading: Elle Nash’s Deliver Me – an unhinged story of motherhood, manipulation and murder.
Suspiria (2018)
Hot girls love competitive women, intense Berlin dance schools, witches, Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton and, of course, Mia Goth.
Further reading: C J Cooke’s The Lighthouse Witches – girls start going missing from a lighthouse on a remote Scottish island where a witch hunt took place centuries before…
Candyman (1992)
Further viewing: Candyman (2021) – written by Jordan Peele and puts Black characters at the centre of the Candyman story (as they should be). Comparing the 1992 and 2021 Candyman films is a crucial part of the hot girl viewing experience.
Hot girls love urban legends and determined-yet-naive woman protagonists trying to educate themselves and not taking no for an answer.
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Hot girls love the intersections of horror and queerness. They also love singing along to all the songs and screaming dialogue at the screen.
Further reading: Bram Stoker’s Dracula – read with a queer lens and it quickly becomes clear that Dracula is the Frank-N-Furter of this classic novel. Jonathan is Brad, Mina is Janet; need I say more?