The Horror Sensorium by Angela Ndalianis Leon Gurevitch December 2013 Book Reviews There are a few rare pleasures you get to experience when reading The Horror Sensorium by Angela Ndalianis. Many academics, having established themselves and their research platform, begin to churn out books th...
“‘Pathetic Little Perv’: Patrick Rises Again” Rose Capp July 2013 Uncategorized In Mark Hartley’s Not Quite Hollywood (Mark Hartley, 2008), the writer/director explores a substantial group of underappreciated Australian genre films produced in the 1970s and 1980s. The genteel historicity o...
New Vampire Cinema by Ken Gelder Enrique Ajuria Ibarra June 2013 Book Reviews 2012 was the year for vampires and the cinema. If the topic seemed somehow exhausted, there were plenty of reasons to look back at it, hopefully with a distanced and refreshed critical look. Indeed, earlier t...
Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro Mithuraaj Dhusiya March 2012 Book Reviews How often have we longed for well-researched and documented scholarly works on zombie literature and films? And how equally often have we been disappointed by its paucity, even though the market is inundated wi...
The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity by Linnie Blake Robyn Citizen July 2009 Book Reviews In The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity, UK lecturer Linnie Blake argues for the horror genre’s unique ability to confront the consequences of traumatic national events ...
Satan Chic: An Interview with Cult British Horror Director Norman J. Warren Adam Locks April 2009 Conversations on Film Warren, together with his contemporary Pete Walker, were seen as the “two young Turks of British ’70s horror” that took the genre beyond the gothic Hammer studio template. The director of such titles as Her Private Hell, Satan’s Slave and Terror discusses his career.
