Cinema

A consideration of the film trajectories taken by Gothic cinema, including an overview of some of the most influential films…

The haunting, and the ghosts themselves, which in gothic texts are often portrayed in a manner that creates mystery and…

The release in 2004 of Zack Snyder’s remake of George A. Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’ (1978) attests to the…

While there are many studies of specific adaptations of Shelley, very few have focused on the overall impression her fictional…

While the thriller and the horror film are commonly seen as quite separate categories today, they were virtually indistinguishable terms…

One curious characteristic of books about horror films is that they tend to end pessimistically, either by prophesying the impending…

A consideration of the filmic trajectories taken by Gothic cinema since Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ (1960), including an overview of some of…

Love your zombie is not an injunction to find some good-looking walking corpse and form a deep emotional and physical…

The trope of the ‘haunting melody’ recurs in film noir of the classic era (1940-1959)

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat

Film noir has been one of the most debated, most discussed and most contested terms in studies of film history…

The horror film offers a particularly interesting example of this punishment in the woman’s terrified look at the horrible body…