Category Archives: horror

Cinefantastique Podcast Discussion: BBC’s “Jekyll”

January 19th, 2011 | Posted in Cinefantastique, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, horror, podcast

I have been invited back as a guest for the Cinefantastique Podcast that will be recorded this Sunday and uploaded for listening at some point next week. The focus for our discussion is the interesting BBC television program Jekyll from 2007. As will inferred from the title of the program, it takes its inspiration from […]

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Matthew R. Bradley: Richard Matheson on Screen

January 16th, 2011 | Posted in fantasy, horror, science fiction

Richard Matheson is one of the most influential writers of horror, science fiction, and fantasy in our time. Many of his works have been translated to the silver and small screens, and Matthew R. Bradley describes this process in his great book Richard Matheson on Screen: A History of the Filmed Works (McFarland, 2010). Bradley […]

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Joseph Laycock: The Omega Man and Sociophobics of Cults

January 13th, 2011 | Posted in cults, horror, Joseph Laycock, new religious movements, Richard Matheson, The Omega Man

Joseph Laycock, an up and coming scholar of religion and popular culture, has an article in the International Journal for the Study of New Religions Volume 1, No. 2 (2010), titled “Conversion by Infection: The Sociophobic of Cults in the Omega Man.” The abstract: The Omega Man (1971), starring Charlton Heston, is a film adaptation […]

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Black Death: Promising Medieval Horror

January 12th, 2011 | Posted in horror, Wicca, Witchcraft

Recently I interviewed Peg Aloi who shared her thoughts on how the film Season of the Witch might depict the witch and how this characterization might relate to witches and Wiccans in the real world. Since our discussion this film has debuted in theaters, and many reviews have not been positive. By contrast, there has […]

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BBC Four Documentary: A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss

January 2nd, 2011 | Posted in documentary, horror

Through a post at Zombos Closet of Horror I became aware of a great documentary on horror films produced and aired in the UK. It is titled A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss. Gatiss is an actor, screenwriter, and novelist who has been involved a number of comedy and genre projects. Some of his […]

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Catholic Theologian Rejects “Zombie Jesus”

December 27th, 2010 | Posted in Christianity, horror, resurrection, theology, zombie, zombie Jesus, zombie walks

Today I came across an essay and interview that appeared last year in Religion Dispatches by Jason VonWachenfeldt that touched on a controversy between the Vatican and systematic theologian Roger Haight. I’m not sure of the present state of the controversy, if there is one, but a year ago the Vatican had concerns about some […]

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): Social and Theological Reflections of the “Me Generation”

December 26th, 2010 | Posted in 1970s, eschatology, horror, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), resurrection, science fiction, theology

I have been fortunate with the holidays to have a little extra spending cash that I have been able to put into adding to my video library. One of the films added to my collection was Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). Of course, this film is based on the book by Jack Finney from […]

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The Art of Hammer: Horror, Beauty, and a Vanishing Art Form

December 8th, 2010 | Posted in Hammer Films, horror

In the contemporary period films are marketed through the various media that intertwines with our lives on a daily basis. We watch trailers for forthcoming films in the theater, they are shown on television, and the Internet plays a major part in promoting films through websites and various social media. But before most of these […]

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Entertainment Weekly: The Walking Dead “Best New Show on TV”

November 29th, 2010 | Posted in horror, The Walking Dead, zombie

I recently came across a magazine that devoted its cover to their assertion that AMC’s The Walking Dead is “The Best New Show on TV.” Surprisingly, this claim and appreciation for a zombie horror show was not found on the cover of Fangoria, Horror Hound, or Famous Monsters of Filmland, but instead on Entertainment Weekly […]

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The Horror! The Horror!: Controversial Horror Comics of the 1950s

November 16th, 2010 | Posted in 1950s, comics, horror

“THIS BOOK CONTAINS: MURDER! MAYHEM! ROBBERY! RAPE! CANNIBALISM! CARNAGE! NECROPHILIA! SEX! SADISM! MASOCHISM … and virtually every other form of crime, degeneracy, bestiality, and horror!” The words above appear in a report from the mid-1950s titled “Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency” from the Committee on the Judiciary’s investigation of juvenile delinquency in the United States. […]

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