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Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
"Who's going to book a room in the rape-slash-murder motel?" Consider Norma, Norman, and A&E's risk-taking in the BATES MOTEL series. "The Killer's Lust in Slasher TV" is new in J American Culture from Ahmad Hayat / Ines Petrovic Garcia / @thatprofallen.bsky.social @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social
"You know what they called Ward A? The Snake Pit." "Madhouse Movies: Essays on the Depiction of Psychiatric Institutions" covers thrillers, dramas, and horrors like SESSION 9, BEDLAM, and DRACULA. Now out from @mcfarland.bsky.social and editor Sharon Packer mcfarlandbooks.com/product/madh...
Good news/bad news for your Monday: We're ALL dying. "Contagion: Between Contiguity & Community" is now out with a chapter from Marta Miquel-Baldellou about aging as a disease as seen in RELIC, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER & THE MANOR. #openaccess from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social doi.org/10.1515/9783...
"There are certain rules that one must abide by…" @drstevejones.bsky.social challenges what you think you know about "The Postmodern Slasher Film" including that it started with SCREAM. Now in paperback from @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pos...
L'horreur, c'est notre nationalité. Reece Goodall's tome on "French Horror: Industry, Society and Media" tackles the country's 21st century knives in the belly, shots in the spine, and hordes in the banlieu. New from @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
"They're all going to laugh at you!" Matthew Eng revisits lonely girl Carrie White as inhabited by Sissy Spacek as part of the Museum of the Moving Image's summer DePalma restrospective. @reverseshot.bsky.social reverseshot.org/features/347...
The Loneliest Girl: Sissy Spacek in Carrie
Goings-on at Museum of the Moving Image
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Over at Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com, MANOR Resident and Holy Terrors co-host Brian Keiper @brianwaves42.bsky.social wrote a piece about THE OMEN to celebrate its recent 50th anniversary. LOOK AT IT DEAR READER! IT’S ALL FOR YOU! 😈 bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3... 1/3
@mikemuncer.bsky.social's superstar podcast is now in book form and available stateside. "The Evolution of Horror" covers the tentpoles of slashers, ghosts, vampires, zombies, mind & body, occult folk, and cosmic horror flicks in a nice 'n' glossy package. www.headline.co.uk/titles/mike-...
Two very different essays over #BrightLightsFilmJournal: Lee Russell Wilkes posits that SCHINDLER'S LIST is more exploitative than Nazispolitation, and Pooya Salehi writes about the horrors of love in TOGETHER (2025). #openaccess brightlightsfilm.com
"People see you, they notice. … I'm a ghost." Will Jeffery writes about vaporwave and vapidity, spike heels and spectres in Nicholas Winding Refn's L.A. fable THE NEON DEMON (2016). Music, Sound & the Moving Image @projectmuse.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/105/arti...
I wrote about HOUSE OF WAX (2005) and the millennial crash out of the mid-2000s when reality hit that we inherited a broken, rundown system from Boomers 😩 professorhorror.com/Deep-Cuts-HO...
HOUSE OF WAX (2005) & the Millennial Crash Out of the Mid-2000s
HOUSE OF WAX (2005) wasn't just a slasher remake. Bee Delores' Deep Cuts essay explores how Jaume Collet-Serra's horror film eerily foreshadowed millennial economic anxiety.
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I fucking love this movie and I fucking love that this is the best piece I have written on it. Now no one has to give the bad place clicks to see me gush over my favorite Grampa Gooey film.
NightTide Magazine@nighttidemag.bsky.social · 2w agoBelieve it or not, The Fly is an ooey-gooey love story. @sharai.bsky.social dives in for its 40th anniversary. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/f...
Every year, Film at Lincoln Center celebrates the best in genre filmmaking with their annual Scary Movies series. Running since 2002, the film series offers moviegoers the best in suspense, gore, and terror of all kinds, and FANGORIA is excited to exclusively present the trailer for this year’s…
Watch The Trailer For This Year’s SCARY MOVIES Series At Lincoln Center
Every year, Film at Lincoln Center celebrates the best in genre filmmaking with their annual Scary Movies series. Running since 2002, the film series offers moviegoers the best in suspense, gore, and terror of all kinds, and FANGORIA is excited to exclusively present the trailer for this year’s series, which begins on August 12 in...
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Farsi baladi? Max Bledstein's "Contemporary Iranian Horror Cinema" looks to the Persian provocateurs behind FISH & CAT, GIRL'S DOMITORY, and PARKWAY. Now out from @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
"I found something … I found a place." Andrew Kolarik gets trapped in the maze in his new essay, "Narrative Rigor in the Nightmare Labyrinth of Backrooms." #openaccess at #FilmInternational filmint.nu/narrative-ri...
Narrative Rigor in the Nightmare Labyrinth of Backrooms - FilmInt.nu
By Andrew Kolarik. Something that has grown organically over the last few years from quiet beginnings rooted in internet memes and computer gaming…and is startlingly effective at evoking a kind of nam...
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"You carry Hell with you at all times." The new Mise-en-scene issue has essays about the horror of police in Turkish nightmare BASKIN and Afrosurrealist capitalism in SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. #openaccess #KellyDoyle #JustinGonatas @kwantlenu.bsky.social journals.kpu.ca/index.php/ms...
Check out an excerpt from Robert Guffey's Hollywood Haunts the World, over at Film International: filmint.nu/cronus-devou... #cultfilm #winterkills #jfk
Cronus Devouring His Children: William Richert’s Winter Kills (1979) - FilmInt.nu
By Robert Guffey. For no matter who eats who first, the grave swallows both father and son in time….” What follows is a brief excerpt from my latest book, Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation ...
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"I hate to admit this, but I don't understand this situation at all." Grab a damn fine cup of coffee and sit down with the new Supernatural Studies, all about TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN. Eds. @franckboulegue.bsky.social & Marisa C. Hayes #openaccess www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-jou...
Fans of classic horror, take note. "Strange Illusions: The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer" celebrates the life of the man who created THE BLACK CAT (1934), DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL (1957), and more. Now out from authors David Luhrssen & Paul McComas @mcfarland.bsky.social mcfarlandbooks.com/product/stra...
From Yul Brynner's terrifying Gunslinger and the themes of technological hubris and corporate greed to its use of digital effects, 1973's Westworld has had an indelible impact on pop culture–let's discuss Michael Crichton's unsettling sci fi Western!
Westworld: It’s All Fun and Games Until the Robots Start Shooting - Reactor
Saddle up for a deep dive into the making of an iconic sci fi Western and its intriguing cinematic legacy...
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This soil has seen blood ... "Horror & Indigeneity" is out from @utexaspress.bsky.social w/essays on the monstrous legacies of colonialism in works of and about Native peoples. Plus wendigos, zombies & mutant bears! Eds @mleeder.bsky.social & Gary D Rhodes utpress.utexas.edu/9781477334133
Open up and let the Devil in! Green Letters journal has @jenniferhenke.bsky.social's new essay on Ben Wheatley's A FIELD IN ENGLAND, ecocriticism, and the skewering of "magic mushroom-induced epiphanies." #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1468...
Richard Nowell's business is horror business, and business is … free! Proof versions of his seminal book on the economics of the original slashers, "Blood Money," as well as edited collection "Merchants of Menace," are now here: www.academia.edu/245052/Blood... www.academia.edu/785460/Merch...
The "Grotesque" can be weird, queer, monstrous, colonial, planetary, and sometimes a Human Centipede. Justin D. Edwards' (R.I.P.) and Rune Graulund's book on this complex concept is now in a second edition from @routledgebooks.bsky.social. www.routledge.com/Grotesque/Ed...
RIP Tony Rayns, a wonderful writer, commentator, critic, film festival programmer and screenwriter, who contributed fascinating insights to many of our releases.
Let Chijioke Azuawusiefe introduce you to the women, wealth, and witchcraft of Nigerian filmmaking, including those notorious "video films" filled with Pentecostal nightmares. "Nollywood and Popular Religion" is new from @iupress.bsky.social. iupress.org/978025307637...
"You're just like me... violent and depraved." Yi Chun Wu talks about the "Taiwan's trilogy of national calamity" as metaphorized in MON MON MONSTERS, THE SADNESS, and GET THE HELL OUT. #openaccess from Journal of Chinese Cinemas doi.org/10.1080/1750...
"He" might have come home, but "She" was there to meet him. @danieljsheppard.bsky.social looks back at our first Final Girls of the classic slasher era, including Laurie from HALLOWEEN, and the nuances of her feminist credentials. #openaccess from Q Rev Film & Video doi.org/10.1080/1050...
"The damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?!" Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk argue that, like in ALIEN, RESIDENT EVIL, and real life, Corporate Harms are A Horror Story. Get their new book from @routledgebooks.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Corporate-Ha...
