Cinema
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‘Faces of Death’ Remakes Mondo Myth for the Algorithm Age
Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei reroute the 1978 mondo cult object through a content moderator’s screen in a slasher film…
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Genki Kawamura’s ‘Exit 8’ Opens in Theaters via Neon
Kawamura’s psychological horror film ‘Exit 8’ opens in U.S. theaters today via Neon, adapted from Kotake Create’s viral 2023 indie…
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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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Bram Stoker and the Creation of the ‘Dracula’ Novel (1897)
The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the famous figure of a vampire created by Bram Stoker in…
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Six Suggestions for Finding the Perfect Filming Location
Whether you are an aspiring or seasonal videographer, you want to ensure the perfect shot every time, and that is…
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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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Psychological Horror, and Body Horror
Perhaps the most frightening of all horror films are those where there are no monsters and no demons other than…
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Horror Cinema and the Mad Science of Nature
Horror films capitalise on our increasing sense of alienation from the natural environment, an alienation embodied in a growing ecological…
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The Occult in Hammer Film Productions, and Ancient Traditions
This article argues that the portrayal of the occult in British horror films reflected contemporary realities of gender, class, race,…
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Social Aspects of the Monsters We Fear in the Movies
Horror films offer the pleasure of the intended affects among which we can identify a sense of suspense, a sense…
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Lost in Kubrick’s Maze and ‘The Shining’s Room 237
Few movies in the history of cinema have been as enigmatic and thought-provoking as Kubrick’s horror masterpiece ‘The Shining’ (1980)
