Cinema

Although 1960s horror was supposedly dominated by Hammer Film Productions, Heffernan has pointed out that Hammer (and AIP) were both…

The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the famous figure of a vampire created by Bram Stoker in…

Whether you are an aspiring or seasonal videographer, you want to ensure the perfect shot every time, and that is…

“Thriller” was a film that provoked the kinds of physical reactions that are usually associated with horror today, and a…

Crimes and horror films were seen as a brilliant blending of established trends rather than as the creation of a…

Perhaps the most frightening of all horror films are those where there are no monsters and no demons other than…

Horror films capitalise on our increasing sense of alienation from the natural environment, an alienation embodied in a growing ecological…

This article argues that the portrayal of the occult in British horror films reflected contemporary realities of gender, class, race,…

Horror films offer the pleasure of the intended affects among which we can identify a sense of suspense, a sense…

Few movies in the history of cinema have been as enigmatic and thought-provoking as Kubrick’s horror masterpiece ‘The Shining’ (1980)

Victorian culture is often lampooned for its obstinate, reckless progressivism, its racist insistence on the benignity of Western culture, but…

This article will examine the monster which lies at the foundation of the Gothic, horror genre: the monstrous house, or…