As a popular form, its pervasiveness has seen it succeed as a modern series of blockbusters (‘The Mummy’ [1999– 2008], and ‘Hellboy’ [2004–2008] films), independent breakthroughs (‘The Blair Witch Project’ [1999], and ‘The Sixth Sense’ [1999]), films for children and young adults (‘Coraline’ [2009], and ‘Twilight’ [2008]), and innovative international arthouse releases (‘El labertino del fauno’ [‘Pan’s Labyrinth’, 2006], and ‘Låt den rätte komma in’ [‘Let the Right One In’, 2008]).
‘American Gods’: Myths, Narratives, and Secular Mythology
Myth is a term that can lead to much confusion when one tries to pin down a precise definition. People use the term myth, and subsequently the term mythology, in several ways, and to mean many different things.
Case Studies in Dollars-Horror Cinema: ‘Blood and Black Lace’
Mario Bava’s ‘Blood and Black Lace’ chronicles in gruesome detail the crimes of a silent, black-clad, white-masked killer, who, armed with an iron claw, stalks and brutally slays half a dozen beautiful female models employed at a fashion salon in Rome.
Hammer Film Productions Horror and the Japanese Counterparts
Transnational studies of popular film genres too often impose a Hollywood-derived understanding of generic categories on another culture’s cinema, or else conceive of national genres as essentially separate from Hollywood’s hegemony.
Rites and Rituals and Allegories of the Tales of the Undead
In reassessing the cultural and political consciousness of Cundieff’s art, we may be tempted to rename the film’ Tales of the Undead’ because of the narrative intimacy Cundieff uses to reclaim the past — a past that is haunted, as Toni Morrison states elsewhere, by “signs, visitations, and ways of knowing that [encompass] more than concrete reality” (McKay 1983, 414).
The ‘Doppelgänger’ and Female Monstrosity in Vampires
In recent decades, the concept of identity and what constitutes human nature has been challenged by many scholars, who have perceived there to be a crisis to the previous humanist ideas based on man’s central position, and a belief in his exceptionalism.
Sequencing the Serial Killer in Modern Television Shows
Serial killers are a prominent component when it comes to modern-day, western cultural products. Primarily, they are featured in a number of mediums including movies, books, and television.
