Category Archives: horror

Toronto Jewish Film Festival and Jewish Horror

May 1st, 2014 | Posted in horror, Jewish monsters, Judaism, monsters, religion

Carl Rosenberg, a reader of this blog, made me aware of an interesting facet of the 22nd Toronto Jewish Film Festival. It features a section on horror titled “The Search for a Jewish Horror Film: Golems, Dybbuks and Other Movie Monsters.” This is described as follows and features the following films: With a series of […]

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‘The Walking Dead’ and the haunted world

March 17th, 2014 | Posted in horror, monstrous, nihilism, The Walking Dead, zombie

In this writer’s estimation the second half of Season 4 of The Walking Dead television series has been rather slow. This is, of course, deliberate as the destruction of the prison and the fragmentation of the group allows for the development of back stories and an exploration of how the characters respond to their new […]

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Robertson: Watching Horror Films Can Lead to Demonic Possession

March 11th, 2014 | Posted in Christianity, demonic, horror

Pat Robertson is known for theological gaffes over the course of his televangelist career. In this video he warns about the possibility of demonic possession by watching horror films. I must admit I’ve had some conservative Christians accuse me of suffering from this malady given my interests in the fantastic and the macabre, but I’m […]

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Titles of Interest: British Gothic Cinema

November 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Gothic horror, horror, Titles of Interest

British Gothic Cinema by Barry Forshaw (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Forshaw provides a definitive, wide-ranging study of the British horror film produced by the Hammer studios and their rivals from the 1940s and 1950s up to the 21st century and the new popularity of the genre. Beginning with a lively discussion of the great literary antecedents, […]

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Call for Papers – Sights and Frights: Victorian Visual Culture, Horror and the Supernatural

November 18th, 2013 | Posted in call for papers, conference, horror, supernatural, Victorian

“Sights and Frights: Victorian Visual Culture, Horror and the Supernatural” University of Sussex June 19 2014 Deadline: December 16, 2013 “Sights and Frights” is a one day interdisciplinary conference, aimed at both academics and post-graduate students, whose aim is to explore and interrogate cultural cross-currents between nineteenth-century visual culture, science and social practice, particularly where […]

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The Purge: Social Commentary for Right and Left

November 10th, 2013 | Posted in horror, political commentary, social commentary

I finally had an opportunity to watch The Purge over the weekend. I heard good things about the film when it appeared in theaters, especially its phenomenal box office success, earning $87 million globally with a $3 million production budget. Part of the film’s success may have come from its political and social commentary. This […]

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Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott on ‘TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen’

October 23rd, 2013 | Posted in horror, television

I have had a long-time interest in horror on television, and have discussed specific aspects of it previously on this blog. With this post we take up the topic again, through an interview with Lorna Jowett and Stacy Abbott, authors of the wonderful volume TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (I.B. […]

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Tal Zimerman talks about ‘Why Horror?’

October 9th, 2013 | Posted in documentary, horror

I recently learned about a documentary that is currently in production, “Why Horror?,” that takes a point of view perspective through the life of Tal Zimerman, as probes the international and cultural phenomenon of horror deeply. Zimerman discusses the film below, and includes a way that you can get involved in completing this effort. TheoFantastique: […]

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Happy Birthday to Mary Shelley

August 30th, 2013 | Posted in Frankenstein, horror, Mary Shelley, science fiction
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Call for Papers – Contemporary Horrors: Destabilizing a Cinematic Genre

August 23rd, 2013 | Posted in call for papers, horror

Contemporary Horrors: Destabilizing a Cinematic Genre The University of Chicago, April 25-26, 2014 Keynote: Adam Lowenstein (Univ. of Pittsburgh) The turn of the millennium has witnessed a uniquely dazzling upsurge in cinematic production within the horror genre. How do we account for the prolific production and prodigious diffusion of horror film since the turn of […]

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