Cinema

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…

Philosophical work on horror has been predominantly focused on horror films, though little of what has been written on horror…

This study explores the rise of contemporary Australian horror cinema production: emerging production and distribution models; the films produced; and…

Gothic films were more about connections, the environment and how the overall look and to feel connected to an emotion,…

This article explores the relationship between the eruptions of the abnormal which are a key part of the Gothic genre…