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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.
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3d ago
Below are the opening pages of a fascinating 2022 book by Thomas Puhr, Fate in Film, about determinism in…
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2w ago
Oz Perkins’ 2024 film, Longlegs, is at first glance a serial killer film, with references abounding to Jonathan Demme’s…
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2w ago
In today’s episode, it’s Tim Burton’s fever dream masterpiece Beetlejuice—a horror-comedy classic with shades of surrealism that’s as colorfully…
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3w ago
Kevin Cooney Godzilla Minus One (2023) altered many fans’ perceptions of the eponymous kaiju. Gone was the childhood joy…
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1M ago
Canadian filmmaker Chris Nash’s 2024 In a Violent Nature is an effective, pared-down slasher. It is also a commentary…
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1M ago
By JDC Burnhil What qualifies a protagonist as a protagonist? The answer may vary depending upon whom we ask,…
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2M ago
Alan Garner’s writing is famously bound to the land. One of his best-known novels, Red Shift (1973) is set…
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2M ago
In 2017, we ran a feature by Roman Smith on a local (eastern Pennsylvania) film festival – the Upper…
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2M ago
Gavin F. Hurley I was a teenager when I first watched The Exorcist. It terrified me. Later, in my…
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2M ago
In a recent Horror Homeroom Conversations podcast, we were discussing two ecohorror films – The Great Alligator (Sergio Martino,…
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