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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · Aug 19

It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social ‬ @wick85c.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...

The cover of the book "Games of Terror Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle," featuring a color-distorted image from the film HALLOWEEN in which Michael Myers attempts to strangle Laurie.

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Aug 13

🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday

Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Jun 17

This afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Jun 16

Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · Jun 10

SHE'S HERE! Predating Carol J Clover's Men Women and Chain Saws by 2 years, this out of print gem has too long been denied its rightful place in the history of horror studies. This reprint is a miracle, thanks in large part to the amazing @danieljsheppard.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...

Cover of book GAMES OF TERROR: HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY 13TH AND FILMS OF THE STALKER CYCLE by Vera Dika, from Uni of Wales Press's Horror Studies series

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · May 31

I had a sneaking suspicion when I read the report 🤪

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · May 31

DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · May 15

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP

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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · May 4

It's that time again, and we're calling for FRESH BLOOD!
#NightTideMag is looking for new contributors for our deep-diving horror mag. If this mission resonates with you, click that link to join our contributor pool! 👻📽️🩸✍️
forms.gle/rY1vageMxmFe...

Black background with teal heart bleeding red blood, overlayed with white text that reads: NightTide is a woman of color-founded and led magazine dedicated to celebrating the full spectrum of horror. We amplify the voices of Creators of Color, the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent experiences, and those challenging ageism in the genre. Our mission is to transform horror by exploring its most diverse, daring, academic, and overlooked perspectives.

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Apr 11

CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭

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dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · Apr 4

Oh yeah I guess I should plug the exhibition shouldn't I.

IF YOU ARE IN BIRMINGHAM PLEASE COME TO THE THING I AM DOING it will make all the stress seem worth it, thanks! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...

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Screening Sex @screeningsex.bsky.social · Mar 14

We are deeply saddened by the news of the loss of Linda Williams. Linda's support and generosity made the Screening Sex initiative what it is today. In recognition of Linda and her work we are inviting all to share thoughts and reflections on her enduring influence. screeningsex.com/2025/03/14/l...

Linda Williams

In light of the sad news of Linda Williams’s passing, we want to acknowledge how hugely influential Linda and her work have been for Screening Sex. Simply, there would be no Screening Sex wit…

screeningsex.com

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Mar 4

Which slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪

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Screening Sex @screeningsex.bsky.social · Feb 21

We’re excited to announce our seminar series for 2025!

First up in March:

IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY

Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research.

👉 Details/register:
screeningsex.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Jan 30

DELIGHTED to launch the sixth edition of the Cine-Excess journal, Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, featuring an all-new essay by Barbara Creed as well as contributions from the cast of the much adorned Hellraiser franchise: Doug Bradley, Nicolas Vince & Barbie Wilde 👻📚

Cine-Excess | Issue 6: Raising Hell - Cine-Excess

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Jan 18

The year of our Lord and Saviour

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ALT: a woman with curly hair is wearing a white jacket and smiling

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Dec 31

Sending warmth and happiness for the year ahead, David 💖

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Dec 31

🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Dec 29

📰 Last Sunday, Xavier Mendik and I were featured in the Metro, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whether or not you read it, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep:

The chilling real life story that inspired Nightmare on Elm Street

The plot for Wes Craven’s iconic film was inspired by a terrifying phenomenon.

metro.co.uk

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Dec 29

But your emails are my favourite!

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Dec 21

For what it’s worth, your chapter contains my favourite stills 🤪 HETEROS AND HUSTLERS certainly sells itself *ahem* but ON NOT HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE so perfectly captures the intellectual trajectory of your work on Reaganite Entertainment. (I always teach your chapter on Flashdance!)

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Dec 21

My boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · Dec 14

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

[20/20]

#BookChallenge 🤓📚

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