Category Archives: horror

Interview with W. Scott Poole on “Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror”

November 6th, 2018 | Posted in 1920s, horror, W. Scott Poole, World War I

Scott Poole is one of the more interesting writers on horror today, and he has been interviewed here previously on his book In the Mountains of Madness, Satan in America, and Monsters in America. We are privileged to have him back to discuss his new book Wasteland: The Great War and The Origins of Modern […]

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Titles of Interest – “Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror”

October 5th, 2018 | Posted in horror, W. Scott Poole

I’ve heard this historical argument made before in horror film documentaries, and in the work of David Skal. So it’s a treat to see Scott Poole, a friend of TheoFantastique (see here and here), pick up this theme with his latest book. Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror W. Scott Poole […]

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“The Cured”: Interesting zombie take similar to “In the Flesh”

May 17th, 2018 | Posted in horror, In the Flesh, zombie

There is a new trailer for a new zombie film, The Cured. It shows evidence of being influenced by the BBC television series In the Flesh, and follows an approach to this subgenre of horror wherein the alien “Other” is explored as they attempt to fit in or reintegrate with the normal “Us.” For my […]

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Titles of Interest – Holy Horror: The Bible and Fear in Movies

April 16th, 2018 | Posted in Bible as Horror, horror, Titles of Interest

Holy Horror: The Bible and Fear in Movies By Steve Wiggins McFarland, 2018 What makes you afraid? It may be more than what you think. Horror films have been exploiting our fears almost from the moment movies were invented. Lurking unseen in the corner of horror, however, is something unexpected: the Bible. Sit back while […]

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New series: Horror and Scripture

January 22nd, 2018 | Posted in Bible as Horror, horror, monsters, monstrous

HORROR AND SCRIPTURE Lexington Books/Fortress Academic is pleased to announce a new series: Horror and Scripture. The series seeks monographs that explore horror, monsters, and the monstrous in early Jewish and Christian scriptures (including canonical and non-canonical texts). Books in the series will be grounded in the disciple of Biblical Studies, but will exhibit a […]

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Titles of Interest: Why Horror Seduces

October 31st, 2017 | Posted in evolutionary psychology, horror, Titles of Interest

Why Horror Seduces by Mathias Clasen (Oxford University Press, 2017) From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is the drive to […]

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CFA: Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out

August 13th, 2017 | Posted in animals, horror, uncanny

The boundary between the animal and the human has long been unstable, especially since the Victorian period. Where the boundary is drawn between human and animal is itself an expression of political power and dominance, and the ‘animal’ can at once express the deepest fears and greatest aspirations of a society’ (Victorian Animal Dreams, 4). […]

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“The Autopsy of Jane Doe” – Surprised by Witchcraft

June 11th, 2017 | Posted in horror, Witchcraft

I’d heard quite a lot of positive buzz about The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Since I added it to my Blu-ray collection I watched it Saturday. I don’t have much to say about it other than it was a satisfying horror film that focuses more on suspense and the creep factor than gore. Even the […]

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“The Girl With All the Gifts” – Interesting Variation on the Zombie Film

June 11th, 2017 | Posted in dystopia, horror, zombie

I had seen advertisements for the film The Girl With All the Gifts (2016), and after almost buying it at my local Walmart over the weekend, I found it for video on demand through internet streaming and decided to give it a viewing. I’m glad I did. It presents an interesting variation on the zombie […]

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Titles of Interest – Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

May 2nd, 2017 | Posted in folk horror, horror

Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange Adam Scovell Columbia University Press, 2017 Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the “wyrd” is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan’s Claw), and Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) have arisen again, most notably in the films of Ben […]

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