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This blog will focus on horror in all its forms (fiction, film, TV). We'll be writing more sustained pieces ("Features") that draw on what we've read of academic scholarship on horror (lots of which is really good) as well as brief thoughts ("Shorts") on individual films or shows.
Horror Homeroom
9h ago
Horror friends! We’ve heard you loud and clear and will now be combining both our book and movie podcasts…
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Horror Homeroom
2w ago
J-horror is often used as shorthand for Japanese horror, but that “J” is a bit limiting. It’s also required for…
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Horror Homeroom
3w ago
With its languid storytelling and inversion of Gothic tropes, Bernard Taylor’s THE REAPING is an exercise in patience with…
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Horror Homeroom
1M ago
Roar Uthaug is a master of genre film. His first directorial feature was the excellent slasher, Cold Prey (2006),…
The post Troll and Ecological Folk Horror in the ‘Sacrifice Zone’ appeared first on Horror Homeroom ..read more
Horror Homeroom
1M ago
What’s scary about Anita Rocha da Silveira’s second feature is neither its monstrous metaphors for the Evangelical extremism on…
The post Medusa: A Failed Feminist Look at Evangelical Extremism appeared first on Horror Homeroom ..read more
Horror Homeroom
1M ago
Privileged paranoia is rarely as enjoyable as in Halina Reijn’s English language feature film debut – a sharp, sarcastic…
The post “Bodies Bodies Bodies” pile up in a trenchant tale of affluent anxiety appeared first on Horror Homeroom ..read more
Horror Homeroom
1M ago
In the Director’s Statement in the Press Packet for his new film, Enys Men (2022), Mark Jenkin writes that…
The post Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men: Cornish Folk Horror appeared first on Horror Homeroom ..read more
Horror Homeroom
1M ago
In October of 2019 I had the good fortune to attend and write about the first iteration of Halaloween,…
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Horror Homeroom
1M ago
Our featured image, which includes Grady Hendrix and Will Errickson’s popular Paperbacks from Hell series, evidences horror literature’s resurgence…
The post Call for Papers – Special Issue #8: Horror Literature appeared first on Horror Homeroom ..read more
Horror Homeroom
2M ago
Privileged paranoia is rarely as enjoyable as in Halina Reijn’s English language feature film debut – a sharp, sarcastic…
The post “Bodies Bodies Bodies” pile up in a trenchant tale of affluent anxiety appeared first on Horror Homeroom ..read more