Tagged horror

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.