Author: Mark Jancovich
Mark Jancovich
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Beyond Hammer Film Productions and the Horror Film in the Early 1960s
Although 1960s horror was supposedly dominated by Hammer Film Productions, Heffernan has pointed out that Hammer (and AIP) were both…
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From the Entertainment Springs of Cinematic Horror Thrills
“Thriller” was a film that provoked the kinds of physical reactions that are usually associated with horror today, and a…
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A Life of Crime and the Thriller as Horror Film
Crimes and horror films were seen as a brilliant blending of established trends rather than as the creation of a…
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Realistic Horror: Film Noir and the 1940s Horror Cycle
While the thriller and the horror film are commonly seen as quite separate categories today, they were virtually indistinguishable terms…
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Psychological Domination and the Figure of the Victim-Monster
If psychological problems afflicted many of Lon Chaney Jr.’s characters, these problems were rarely the megalomania that so often underpinned…
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Compulsion, Self Destruction and the Films of Laird Cregar
As has been demonstrated elsewhere, the horror film and the thriller were not only closely linked during the 1940 but…
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Hammer Film Productions Prestige in the Early 1960s
Although 1960s horror was supposedly dominated by Hammer Film Productions, prestige horror films had their very own problems to negotiate.
