Category Archives: horror

Horror Movie Freak – A Good Beginner’s Guide to the Topic

September 26th, 2010 | Posted in horror

I recently received a review copy of Horror Movie Freak (Krause Publications, 2010) by Don Sumner. The book is an enjoyable discussion of horror films for those fans obsessed with the genre. At one point early in the discussion Sumner provides a description of the purposes of the book: Horror Movie Freak is not a […]

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Richard Harland Smith and Our Inner Contagion

September 18th, 2010 | Posted in horror, infection, vampire, zombie

The other day I was following various research threads on the Internet and discovered the Turner Classic Movies blog titled Movie Morlochs, which classic science fiction fans will recognize as a takeoff from George Pal’s The Time Machine. Unfortunately, despite the clever name, the blog is not solely devoted to science fiction films, but it […]

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Kyle Bishop: American Zombie Gothic

August 26th, 2010 | Posted in apocalypticism, horror, post-apocalypticism, zombie

I first became aware of Kyle Bishop and his work on zombies in film and culture for his PhD while researching the surge in academic work on horror. I then came across an article on his research in The University of Arizona’s UA News, “The Zombie: A New Monster for a a New World.” I […]

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Cinefantastique Interview: Neil Lerner and Music in the Horror Film

August 24th, 2010 | Posted in horror, music

I recently enjoyed exploring an important facet of horror through the book Music in the Horror Film, edited by Neil Lerner (Routledge, 2009). I was then able to interview Lerner who discussed the significance of the aural in horror cinema for Cinefantastique Online. Below is the introduction: I come from a generation of fantastic film […]

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MONSTERS: Reverse SETI Apocalyptic

August 24th, 2010 | Posted in aliens, horror, science fiction, The Andromeda Strain

A new horror film debuts at the end of October titled Monsters. The film’s website describes the plot: Six years ago previously, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form, crashed over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was quarantined as an […]

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American Horror Film: James Kendrick and Spiritual Horror Films

August 15th, 2010 | Posted in Gothic horror, horror, spirituality

As previously noted here in a discussion based upon an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, there is a growing body of academic books exploring horror films. One of those books is American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium, edited by Steffen Hantke (University Press of Mississippi, 2010). While many […]

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The Black Cat: Edgar Ulmer’s Gothic Vision of Europe vs. America

August 11th, 2010 | Posted in 1930s, horror, Universal Pictures

I have finished reading, and enjoying, The Philosophy of Horror, edited by Thomas Fahy (The University Press of Kentucky, 2010), and with this concluding post on the book I will comment on Paul Cantor’s chapter, “The Fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the Gothic Vision of The Black Cat“. Cantor’s chapter […]

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Video Games: Zombies Ate My Neighbors, and Nightmare Creatures

August 3rd, 2010 | Posted in horror, video games

Video games have been an important part of pop culture for man years now, having come a long way from my first experiences with Atari in the 1970s. The genres of the fantastic has been an important part of game play, and with this post I’ll highlight a couple of my favorite games from the […]

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Joseph Laycock: The Legend of Cain and Vampires in the Bible

July 27th, 2010 | Posted in horror, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Laycock, myths, vampire

Joseph Laycock continues to demonstrate that he is the up and coming religion and vampire scholar for the next generation. He recently wrote an article for Religion Dispatches titled “Vampire Bible: Will Smith and The Legend of Cain.” The article begins with the recent announcement that Will Smith will play the Old Testament biblical character […]

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Cleansing Our Sanctuaries: Ghost-Hunters and Home-Improvement

July 26th, 2010 | Posted in ghost, ghost-hunter, horror

What do any number of ghost-hunting and home-improvement television programs have in common? Nothing, you might say? Don’t be so sure. I am working my way through my growing stack of reading relating to the fantastic, and this weekend I read a few chapters in The Philosophy of Horror, edited by Thomas Fahy (The University […]

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