...This chapter locates Suspiria (1976) in the broader international horror canon, considering it in the context of Dario Argento's own oeuvre, and alongside other popular instances of the genre at the time. As the most critically acclaimed and beloved of all Italian...

... a tendency towards transgression and transcendence, and repeated returns to social horror. Indeed, Rose was attracted to Barker's ‘The Forbidden’ because he wanted to ‘deal with the social stuff’. Relocating the action from a Liverpool housing estate to Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, Rose...

... the experience of horror and the nature of campfire storytelling. Candyman urban myth urban legends Bloody Mary ostension minority oppression Clive Barker Bernard Rose horror campfire storytelling Clive Barker contends that when he wrote ‘The Forbidden’ in 1985 he was unaware of the term ‘urban legend...

...This chapter discusses how British horror films reveal the British national psyche as the heritage film or the social realist drama. It describes the British horror film as the site where high- and low-culture converge. It also talks about real-life horror and how it is easily transformed...

.... The chapter discusses several of his films. It talks about how The Mummy reveals Fisher's strengths as a director, and how Fisher, more than anyone else, is responsible for turning horror into an action genre. It discusses how the enormous success of The Curse of Frankenstein...

... of comprehensive cinema scholarship and a new kind of personal film. the High Line title cards City Symphony cinema and memory Rocky Horror Picture Show analogital effects Tony Conrad VHS stores Len Lye Zorns Lemma Immersed as we are within a deluge of media, it’s hard to know whose recommendations...

... nationalist identity citizen–subject ideal wives stories of Indian cinema language and identity Nagula Chavithi sati films subaltern goddesses Telugu cinema upper caste womanhood Western woman women’s bhakti films or amman films horror film liberal secularism Patala Bhairavi pativrata...

... to Shriharsh and Tagore, among other influences, short story writers in Hindi experimented with adventure-romance, science fiction, horror, and historical fiction but eventually settled on subject matter that was more mundane than spectacular, as per Dwivedi’s agenda for language, literature, and nation...

...” at the mores of contemporary France. Though at times seeming skeptical in spirit, this incredulity proved one of “holy horror.” Thus, the Reformation’s sense of historical detachment did not lead to modern disenchantment. Although the religious conflicts could drive away some French sympathizers (Rabelais...

... Bros. because he’d gotten hurt when he fainted during the film and blamed the semi-subliminal images. The effects of horror movies on physical health have received little scientific attention, but there are anecdotal reports of people getting hurt and even dying as a result of horror exposure...

... in slasher movies. That’s not always the case, but in this scene from Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (Paramount Pictures, 1980), Jack (Kevin Bacon) enjoys a postcoital marijuana cigarette before being murdered by the slasher villain. It certainly looks like cause and effect. The horror...

...Figure 8.1 Many horror movies work on a literal as well as a symbolic level, and the genre has a rich tradition of offering social commentary. In this shot from George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (Laural Group, 1978), the living dead are shambling toward a shopping mall...

... Olivia Damiano Gerard Ford John Spinelli Anthony Trollope Anthony Wilder Billy Wyler William Cirile Jim Howard Cecil Sear Sound Exploitation film Grindhouse Pornography Horror film This interview, edited and condensed for clarity, took place on September 21, 2021...

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... to censor America’s comic books (crime and horror comics were especially vilified). Comic book sales in the second half of the 1950s went into decline, though industry self-censorship was not the sole reason: market saturation and competition from other media were also factors. But before this, in 1950, St...

... of classification: firstly, what is the kaijū eiga, and secondly, how to classify this an object: is the kaijū eiga a genre, like the Western or the Japanese swordplay chambara, or does it represent a subgenre, a subset of the science-fiction or horror film...

... the question of racist ideas inspired by depictions of the Japanese in comic books, film and propaganda. Imagining a war so brutal, often laced with black humor, prepared his tastes for other, later, cartoons of the horror genre of increased violence. Crummey Michael adolescence and childhood comics...

...: Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon (2016). Bacon Simon Cronenberg David Hollywood Gothic Kölsch Kevin Maps to the Stars film Neon Demon The film Refn Nicolas Winding Starry Eyes film supernatural horror and the California Gothic Wagner Bruce Widmeyer Dennis Zoller Seitz Matt...

...This chapter opens by discussing the critical lack of attention paid to Pet Sematary (Mary Lambert, 1989) in screen horror scholarship and presents this book as a corrective to this critical oversight. This chapter situates the book within horror studies and ties it to both...

...This chapter situates Stephen King and adaptations of his work as intrinsic to 1980s horror, and considers several shifts both in the genre and in the film industry in relation to this. This chapter cites key developments that contributed to an increased visibility of the horror genre during...