“No one denied Ways of Being had existed. This was not mass hallucination; everyone agreed, even the fringiest conspiracists, that the film was real. It had an IMDb page. References and writeups remained in all the expected books and websites, both contemporary and archival, but the associated promo stills were blacked out, like redacted bits of someone’s FOIA-ed FBI file.”
Cullen Wade, “The Disappearance of ‘Ways of Being’”
Cullen Wade (he/him) is a writer, horror critic, and high school teacher. He is the author of S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema, out in 2025 from McFarland Books. His work has appeared in Paste Magazine, Night Tide Magazine, Spindle House Press, Horror Homeroom, HorrorGeekLife, and Deaf Sparrow. He lives in Charlottesville, VA, USA, with his wife Emma, cat Bishop, and rescue pit bulls Hazel and Libby. Follow him on Bluesky @cullenwade.bsky.social.
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