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Children, Charity and Magazines
Read more: Children, Charity and MagazinesA Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
What is post-horror? A Q&A with David Church, author of Post-Horror: Art, Genre, and Cultural Elevation
In this interview, David Church discusses Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation, exploring the meaning of post-horror, its recent popularity and the films he examines in his book. Broadly speaking, what is ‘post-horror’? I see ‘post-horror’ or ‘elevated horror’ films…
10 Beats of The Pulse in Cinema
By Sharon Jane Mee and Bill Hunt [Content Note: This post contains shots from films depicting blood and gore] One of the things that became apparent to me as I was writing my book, The Pulse in Cinema: The Aesthetics…
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror
by Patricia Pisters Watching horror movies Previously, I truly disliked horror films. In the late 1980s Brian de Palma’s Carrie (1976) was shown on television. I did not want to see it, but my friends and sister convinced me that…
Stick ‘em Up: How a South African Horror Film Prophesied Apartheid’s Road to Nowhere
By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s Us has resulted in a new term, ‘elevated horror’, being introduced into the critical lexicon, much to the chagrin of…
A history of American horror film in 10 images
In his new book, The Birth of the American Horror Film, Gary D. Rhodes delves into the archives to focus on 10 key horror genres prominent in American cinema between 1895 and 1915. From ghosts and witches to mad scientists…
Exploitation-horror? Halloween Stabbed it from the Theatres…
By Calum Waddell With the recent release of the trailer for the upcoming Halloween reboot, Michael Myers and his perennial victim Jamie Lee Curtis have been back in the mainstream public conscience for the first time since 1998, when the…
Waking up from horror: shame and fugitive movements
‘A future politics is given there so powerfully that it’s present as a trace even in certain reactions that, in the very force and determination of reaction, replicate horror’s preconditions…’ Fred Moten1 By foregrounding the experiences of slavery, a black…
Brain Candy – My Top 6 Best First Person Zombie Narratives
By Stacey Abbott As the evenings draw in and the temperature drops, my mind turns toward the ghostly, the ghoulish and the gruesome (‘Tis the Season to be Gruesome’). These days it also turns toward the apocalyptic, with the autumnal…
Five Unmissable Performances from Penny Dreadful
By Benjamin Poore For the uninitiated, Penny Dreadful is a genre-busting neo-Victorian fantasy horror show, set in the 1890s, in a world where Victor Frankenstein, his Creature, Professor Van Helsing, and Dorian Gray can all co-exist. It’s a world where…