Category Archives: horror

Titles of Interest – Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives

April 25th, 2017 | Posted in Frankenstein, horror, Mary Shelley, science fiction

Monstrous Progeny: A History of the Frankenstein Narratives Lester D. Friedman and Allison B. Kavey Rutgers University Press, 2016 Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so […]

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Call for Papers: Elder Horror on Screen

March 28th, 2017 | Posted in call for papers, horror

FINAL DAYS! Call for Contributors Elder Horror on Screen: Hermits, Harbingers, and Hags (4/1/17 Abstracts; 10/1/17 Essays) As the baby boom generation grays, representations of the elderly on screen are receiving significant scholarly attention. Cinematic depictions of aging as a degenerative process, the othering, marginalization, and victimization of the elderly, and fears of the finality […]

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Titles of Interest – Divine Horror: Essays on the Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Diabolical

March 23rd, 2017 | Posted in horror, sacred, Titles of Interest

Divine Horror: Essays on the Cinematic Battle Between the Sacred and the Diabolical Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper, eds. McFarland, 2017 From Rosemary’s Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or affirm the moral order. Churches provide […]

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DON’T BREATHE, God, and Morality

February 13th, 2017 | Posted in ethics, horror, morality, nihilism, philosophy

I was finally able to watch Don’t Breathe and it’s a good horror or suspense film. I was surprised to find a line touching on religion in it: “There is nothing a man cannot do once he accepts the fact that there is no god.” Whether God is needed as a transcendent ground for morality […]

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Titles of Interest: The Laughing Dead

December 27th, 2016 | Posted in comedy, horror, Titles of Interest

The Laughing Dead: The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland, edited by Cynthia J. Miller and Bowdoin Van Riper (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) Hybrid films that straddle more than one genre are not unusual. But when seemingly incongruous genres are mashed together, such as horror and comedy, filmmakers often have to tread carefully […]

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VICE: Horror Films as Christian Propaganda?

October 21st, 2016 | Posted in Christianity, demonic, demonology, devil in film, horror, Satan

A few days ago an essay came across my daily Google news feed on horror that caught my attention. It was “Why Are So Many Horror Films Christian Propaganda?” by Josiah M. Hess at VICE. My initial reaction to the title was one of intrigue and thankfulness for the issue being raised, but this was […]

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Interview with Scott Poole on “In the Mountains of Madness”

October 16th, 2016 | Posted in H. P. Lovecraft, horror, W. Scott Poole

W. Scott Poole is a professor at the College of Charleston with a research interest in American pop and folk culture. He has written a number of books that combine his interests in American history with horror, including Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror, Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and Haunting, and […]

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The Atlantic and del Toro’s “Highbrow Horror”

October 12th, 2016 | Posted in Guillermo del Toro, horror

The Atlantic has an article on Guillermo del Toro’s work titled “The Master of Highbrow Horror”. The art accompanying the piece copied above is worth taking a look by itself. You can read the article here.

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Universal Horror Films Released with Glow in the Dark Covers

September 19th, 2016 | Posted in Halloween, horror, Universal Pictures

Walmart has their Halloween display going for the 2016 season, and a special display of videos near the front of the store features a special release by Universal Studios. Their classic horror films have been released with glow in the dark covers. This is reminiscent of the Aurora monster model kits of the past with […]

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Second Call for Submissions: Fantastic Fan Cultures and the Sacred

September 13th, 2016 | Posted in call for papers, fan cultures, fantasy, horror, horror convention, science fiction, science fiction convention

A number of great abstracts have been submitted, but we need a few more chapters to have a complete volume. Please take a look at this second call for submissions. They ways in which people pursue religion have changed in America and the West. Traditional, institutional religions are in decline, and even among those who […]

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