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Oz Perkins’ 2024 film, Longlegs, is at first glance a serial killer film, with references abounding to Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs (1991) and, to a lesser extent, David Fincher’s Seven (1995). Perkins has been quite explicit in interviews, however, that he lures viewers… Continue Reading →
The result of my mission to discover the church that formed such a large part of Red Shift (1978), the BBC Play for Today adaptation directed by John Mackenzie and written by Alan Garner (based on his 1973 novel). I… Continue Reading →
In the latest special issue of Horror Homeroom (this one on horror literature), I take up a little known folk horror novel from 1982, Bernard Taylor’s The Moorstone Sickness. Here’s a brief excerpt: The central ritual at the end of The… Continue Reading →
In two recent posts for Horror Homeroom, I wrote about the amazing new folk horror film, Enys Men (2022), from Mark Jenkin (who previously directed Bait) – and about how Roar Uthaug’s Troll (2022) represents the ways folk horror emerges… Continue Reading →
Check out the details below for a special issue of Horror Studies Jeff Tolbert and I co-edited. Guest editors, Dr. Dawn Keetley, Professor of English and Film, Lehigh University, dek7@lehigh.edu, and Dr. Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Assistant Professor of American Studies… Continue Reading →
I am very happy to announce that the special issue I edited for Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, Issue 5 (March 2020) is now available. Here’s the Table of Contents. You’ll also find reviews of related books…. Continue Reading →
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