Jessica Scott

@wewhowalkhere.bsky.social

4177 Followers 2418 Following

Film critic, horror scholar, cat enjoyer. Words at Fangoria, Arrow Video, Second Sight Films, Inverse, and more. GALECA and OAFFC member. She/her. Portfolio: authory.com/jessicascott Email: jls.jessica.scott@gmail.com

Boots the Bengal kitten stretches out on his back as he naps adorably on Jessica’s arm as she sits beside him on a couch. The photo is from above but it is insufficient to capture just how lanky of a longboi he is.
Jessica’s Letterboxd review of Friday the 13th (1980): “Horror cinema: the only place where it’s (occasionally) safe to listen to white dudes who claim to be sent by God.”
A long-haired grey-and-white cat and a Bengal kitten cuddle on top of blankets on a couch. They look like they are activating their Wonder Twin powers.
A beautiful cat named Junee perches on a pink cat tree and stares at the camera.
A still from “Summer of 4 Ft. 2.” Lisa is blissful in midair as fireworks go off behind her.
A still from The Simpsons showing several townsfolk. Krusty the Clown is speaking and Maude Flanders is looking over her shoulder at him with disdain.
Four cats lined up behind a screen door looking out onto a deck.
An orange cat sits on the covered balcony of a small outdoor cat house that sits on a deck.
A fluffy grey and white cat cuddles with a Bengal kitten on top of pink and gold blankets on a couch.
A still from The Righteous Gemstones. Jesse Gemstone gestures proudly to a prayer pod (a big church-shaped box where you pay to pray) as his wife and three sons stand in front of it.
Jessica cosplaying as Lady Dimitrescu. She wears a black wide-brimmed hat, a black wig, a white long-sleeved dress with a black flower pinned to it, black gloves, and a pearl necklace. She has one hand on her hip and looks into the camera from under the brim of her hat.
A text from Jessica that reads: “Oh that was so good. It was heartbreaking, but it was also so, so kind. Quite possibly the most empathetic way I’ve seen that depicted onscreen?”
A fluffy grey-and-white cat and a bengal kitten cuddle together on top of a pink blanket. They are facing each other and forming a slight yin-yang shape. It is adorable and Doc is snoring, which makes it even cuter.
A sleepy bengal kitten lies on a fuzzy gold blanket on top of a beige couch. Jessica’s face is visible down to the bridge of her nose as she smiles and looks at her phone.
A bengal kitten sleeps on top of a heating pad as a warm pink television glow surrounds him.
An adorable cat peeks out of a cave in the middle of a cat tower. She is looking at the camera intently, and the glare in her eyes looks unearthly, perhaps even demonic. She also looks like she has a Colonel Sanders goatee in this picture, but she doesn’t have that in real life. (She doesn’t have the demon vibe in real life either, knock on wood.)
Two people sit by a fire in a castle courtyard looking at each other. The captions read: “Happy juju.” “Happy juju.”
A screenshot of a product review: “Top Reviewed for Cute.” 4.4 stars out of 5, with 551 ratings. “Positively reviewed for cute.”
A still of the video for Technotronic’s “Pump Up the Jam” as seen on Cunk on Earth. The caption reads, “This song was played five times in a row at the funeral of” and Jessica has crossed out the actual text and replaced it with “[redacted].”
An orange and white cat lying in a flower bed next to some mint and some dead leaves that Jessica needs to rake.
A still from The Taking of Deborah Logan. An older woman with thin hair and a loose long-sleeved nightgown stands in profile, facing the camera with unfocused eyes and a sinister grimace.
David the Gnome, beloved cartoon character (RIP)
An adorable senior beagle sits on a rug and looks up at Jessica adoringly. She was the best dog in the world. 💜
Jessica lies in bed with her head resting against Doc, a fluffy grey-and-white cat, who lies on top of Boots, a Bengal kitten who is barely visible beneath his big brother’s fluff.
A tabby kitten sitting on top of Jessica’s feet on a couch as she faces the glow of an out-of-frame TV.
Clara from The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey. A black and white illustration shows a young girl wasting away in a bed. The surrounding room is dark and cavernous.
Lupita Nyong’o on the poster for Little Monsters. She wears a bright yellow dress stained with blood. She smiles and jumps joyfully while holding a ukulele as grey zombie hands grasp at her feet. The background of the poster is the same yellow as her dress.
Ann Savage in Detour. She sits in the passenger seat of a convertible going down a desert highway and glares at the offscreen driver. She looks sweaty and feral and beautiful and terrifying.
Britney Spears in her red latex jumpsuit from the video for “Oops!… I Did It Again.” She looks to the side pensively. Jessica has added a picture of a beautiful cat lounging on a scratcher for Britney to consider. This is Jessica’s newest cat and she is settling in beautifully, knock on wood.
Two texts from Jessica: “They just don’t see other people as human. Or they don’t care. Fuck, if I think about this any longer I’ll just lie on the floor and cry all day. Not doing it. I’m gonna take care of my cats and watch movies and write. Also Catherine O’Hara died?? So I’m crying again?”
A photograph from inside a house of a majestic orange cat sitting on a snow-covered deck. She is seen through the glass of the back door. She is enjoying the sun and staring into Jessica’s soul, telepathically asking her why she let the ground get so cold and wet.
“Perhaps it’s due to the chronic decline in news engagement, but I often found it witheringly difficult to connect with people who had little, if any, knowledge about current affairs. On one date, I talked about the leader of the country the person was from, and they’d never even heard of him.”
Mel C (Sporty Spice from The Spice Girls, whose film SPICE WORLD belongs in the Criterion Collection [and I should write the essay for it]). She wears a black sports bra with white piping and black leggings with white stripes down the side. She is punching and kicking at the camera with a grin. She is exuding Girl Power.
Jessica smiles at the camera. She has medium-length curly brown hair and wears a coral hoodie.
The Beastie Boys
A still from Carnival of Souls. Ghouls with dark clothing and dark circles around their eyes sit on a bus staring into the camera.
Maggie Q looking both badass and ethereal in black leather
Maxine Shaw in a business suit looking unamused.
Paula Prentiss showing off her bone structure in What’s New, Pussycat?
Pam Grier looking beautiful in Foxy Brown
Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2. She wears a black top and a black jacket with a pink lining. She is singing and holding her arms up in a dance move.
A still from Singin’ in the Rain. The minimalist set is red with black accents. Cyd Charisse is seated in a chair at a café. She wears a sparkly green outfit that showcases her long legs. She extends her right leg and holds Gene Kelly’s hat aloft with her foot. He kneels next to her in surprise, staring up at his hat. He wears khaki slacks, a white shirt with the sleeves sluttily and thankfully rolled up past his elbows, a bright yellow vest, and a red tie.
Jessica and Bootsy, a Bengal kitten, cuddling in bed together. Jessica has her head on a pillow with her eyes closed. Boots has one paw pressing on the bridge of Jessica’s nose and another paw curled up on her chin.
Two cats playing on a grey cat tower. A Bengal kitten sits on top of it, peering intently to the side, while a tabby kitten hides inside it.
Parliament’s album Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
A tabby kitten seated on a gold pillow that sits atop a grey-and-white chair. She looks up curiously. She is lit by bright sunlight pouring in from behind her. Behind her are racks of blu-rays.
Jessica’s Letterboxd 2025 stats showing that her most watched actor was Dick Miller and her most watched director was Joe Dante.
Jessica’s 3.5-star Letterboxd review of The Unsuspected: “The story needed several more passes, but who needs story when you’ve got Michael Curtiz’s eye and Audrey Totter’s everything”
Tom Berenger in Major League. He stands at the plate calling his shot (pointing to left center field) as the camera looks at him from below.
Poster for The Curse of Frankenstein. The poster looks like the monster himself: a patchwork cursed by God. Clashing colors and at least half a dozen different fonts are arranged in a clunky, slapdash design.
A text message to Jessica: “Please don’t let people walk on the concrete slab until Monday. It’s ok if cats walk on it. Have a great weekend!”
A still from “22 Short Films About Springfield.” Principal Skinner obsequiously presents a silver platter of “steamed hams” (hamburgers with fries) to a seated Superintendent Chalmers.
The title card for David Lynch’s Lost Highway. The title is in bold yellow type against the black of the sky above an image of car headlights speeding down a highway at night.
Pigman from PCU sitting on a couch as he watches TV with a notebook in his lap.
Three cats cuddled up together on fuzzy gold and pink blankets on top of a couch. One kitten leans against Jessica’s side as she sits on the couch.
Jessica’s 5-star Letterboxd review of Casablanca: “retroactively logging every single time I rode past Animatronic Humphrey Bogart on The Great Movie Ride Man, what an absolute miracle of a picture. Perfection.”
Jessica is quote-tweeting Letterboxd, whose social media team still refuses to use alt text, in its request for users to post their first and last films watched in 2025. Jessica’s first film was Clifford and her last was the original Suspiria.
Jessica’s 5-star Letterboxd review of No Country for Old Men: “The Coens see revelations and obfuscations within regional dialects the same way Neo sees the code of the Matrix.”
A long-haired cat and a Bengal kitten cuddle sleepily amongst pink and gold blankets on a beige sofa.
A long kitten and a fluffy cat in shrimp pose cuddle in such a way as to suggest a rehearsal of the off-off-off-Broadway version of The Substance.