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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
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New black-🖤ed books from @manchesterup.bsky.social: "The Gothic in Times of Crisis" w/chapters on films such as ANGEL HEART + "New Basque Gothic" exploring big cinema from a small people, incl. ERREMENTARI.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191724/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181183/
On the left, the cover of the book "The Gothic in times of crisis" showing a large photo of a spire of a gothic church ablaze with a raging fire. On the right, the cover of the book "New Basque Gothic: Trauma, screen media and transnationalism" in bright red with an image at the top of a goddess-like figure shrouded in cloth, standing in a cave-like tomb.
December 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"How did you figure it out?" "Because you've killed me before!" Michael Burke writes about the rise of time-warp slasher films like HAPPY DEATH DAY and THE FINAL GIRLS in the latest J Film & Video @illinoispress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social
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On the left, a screenshot of the article "Rewound Repression, Freaky Metamorphoses, Final Girls, and Downward Spirals: On the Rise of the Science Fiction Slasher" in plain text. On the right, a still from the film HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U in which a blonde Final Girl stands in a hospital gown while the masked killer "Babyface" lurks behind her.
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The first gift of the Christmas season! Fran Pheasant-Kelly's latest work on the messed-up yuletide magic of Tim Burton in BATMAN RETURNS, THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is #openaccess at J Am Culture @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/jacc...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Tim Burton's Christmas Chaos: Abject Transgression in Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Edward Scissorhands" in plain text. On the right, the cover of a manga book version of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS showing Jack Skellington and his love Sally embracing underneath a full moon, a Christmas village down the hill below.
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Today is the LAST DAY to get 35% off all McFarland titles with coupon code HOLIDAY25!
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This is a BIG one … and yes, that WAS Freudian. @psycstar.bsky.social's "Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema" is here for all your Oedipal sons, castration-fearing fathers, and little girls who feel that very special something missing. New @routledgebooks.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Psychoanalys...
The cover of the book "Psychoanalyzing Horror Cinema" featuring a pastel drawing of the ballerina from BLACK SWAN (2010), in pirouette, with her "black swan" persona doubling her in darker colors.
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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For my American horror homies this Thanksgiving: A great article to send a family member on why we love scary movies. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #anxiety
'The paradox of horror': How scary films can soothe your anxiety
Jump scares and gore might not seem like the most soothing watching, but scary films can actually be the ideal therapy during anxious times.
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
horrorlex.bsky.social
Really enjoying new writer Christopher Bryan Gomez over at @kaijuunited.bsky.social‬, including his two-parter positing that Godzilla's roar has a connection w/Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera." This is the kind of horror investigation we need, people.
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Godzilla vs. The Phantom of the Opera: An Unlikely Connection - Kaiju United
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November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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🦃 Happy Thanksgiving to all who worship the turkey! 🦃 While you're sitting on the couch cradling your food baby, maybe read a little about vampire appetites? S. Brooke Cameron & Suyin Olguin's essay on the topic is #openaccess from J Dracula Studies.
research.library.kutztown.edu/dracula-stud...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "A Very Victorian Feast: Food and the Importance of Consumption in Modern Adaptations of Dracula." On the right, an image from the film BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA in which Gary Oldman as the Count puts a man's straight razor to his tongue and takes a big lick.
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Past trauma and present legacies are explored in "Haunted Histories & Troubled Pasts," a 21st-century horror media extravaganza w/essays on PENNY DREADFUL, A SERBIAN FILM, the return of TWIN PEAKS + much more. Now in paperback from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/haunted-h...
The cover of the book "Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts: Twenty-First-Century Screen Horror and the Historical Imagination," with a photo of an empty old movie theater. On the right, an image from the TV series PENNY DREADFUL in which a man leans over the neck of a sleeping woman as if to bite her. They're both in Victorian garb.
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Mushroom horror, from H.P. Lovecraft to THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS and THE LAST OF US, is really having a moment. Karel Šima's "Fungi in popular culture reconsidered: Four more-than-human entanglements" is #openaccess from @ejcs-journal.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1177/1367...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Fungi in popular culture reconsidered: Four more-than-human entanglements" in plain text. On the right, an image from the 1963 film MATANGO (a.k.a. ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE) showing a man with ugly fungal outgrowths on his face standing menacingly in a doorway.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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In this sprawling new essay at #BrightLights, Amir Zadnemat compares the horror from within vs. horror from without in Western vs. Eastern films, such as seen in RINGU and THE RING. "The Lingua Franca of Fear" is #openaccess.
brightlightsfilm.com/the-lingua-f...
The Lingua Franca of Fear: A Dialectical History of Global Horror Cinema - Bright Lights Film Journal
This article argues that the history of global horror is not a linear progression of influence from a dominant West to the passive rest of the world but a dynamic,[...]
brightlightsfilm.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Irrationally proud of this new #Letterboxd list.

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Connecticut Really Showing Its Ass
For those who live in Darien, work in Manhattan, and also want to turn their wives into robots and murder all their friends at key parties.
letterboxd.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Check out these incredible articles!
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👀 Read them already? Let us know what you think!
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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This week is the 70th anniversary for LES DIABOLIQUES, a film about stubborn husbands that just won't stay dead. Impress your nerdiest friends with what you've learned from Daniel Tilsley's #openaccess essay on the film's influential aura of existential dread.
doi.org/10.3366/film...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "Existential and Phenomenological Horror in Les Diaboliques" in plain text. On the right, a famous scene from 1955's LES DIABOLIQUES in which a chic blonde woman, looked panicked, holds a man underwater in a bathtub.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Christmas miracles have come early, ghoulfriends! You can grab some of my books on cult, horror, exploitation cinema + women's filmmaking from @mcfarland.bsky.social until 1 December at a staggering 35% off with the powerfully effective checkout code HOLIDAY25 ❤️

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Photo of four of my books from McFarland publishing: - Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (2014) - The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema (2021) - The Cinema Coven: Witches, Witchcraft and Women's Filmmaking (2024) - Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (2021 Second Edition, which is substantially revised from the original 2011 version and features an entirely new chapter on women-directed rape-revenge films)
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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A new #HorrorStudies is upon us! And someone has finally written about the sublimely ridiculous UNDER PARIS! (Thanks Kaja Franck) Also THE TERROR and MARBLE HORNETS series, legacy sequel PSYCHO II, and Dreyer's VAMPYR.
@intellectbooks.bsky.social
www.intellectbooks.com/horror-studies
The cover of Horror Studies journal 16.2 with its standard cover photo of a long-haired woman in a white gown standing before a dark and foreboding forest. An image from the film UNDER PARIS in which a giant shark leaps up from the water, filled with red-capped triathlon swimmers, one of them in its jaws.
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The wolf's 5 favorite film genres:

- Monsters who just want a sincere apology
- Legal case thriller where everyone should be disbarred
- It's incest, but everyone's so hot it's justifiable
- Secret Nazis doing wacko science things
- We're in space but, oops, everyone's nuts
benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 20d
Top five film genres:

Gloopy melting monster

70s science fiction film about contemporary politics that's a total bummer

It all happened in one crazy night!

Groups of men dancing and singing about their jobs

Children's story written by someone who has never met a child
labuzamovies.com Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 20d
top five film genres:

lady journalist in depression era america is going to get to the bottom of this, man or no man

warriors learn magic, defeat master who killed their master

the camera moves!: an experiment

the folks in this building is a reflection of all america

immigration as a vibe
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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@krp.bsky.social may not have been first to teach that "horror films reflect real anxieties," but he's among the best. "Projected Fears" is in a 2nd ed. to tell us how films like DRACULA, PSYCHO, SAW & GET OUT captured the zeitgeist. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/projected...
On the left, the cover of the new edition of "Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture," with the title set against a bloodied and battered U.S. flag. On the right, a classic still from the movie PSYCHO showing Janet Leigh in the shower, screaming.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Torture porn may have sullied its reputation, say Keith McDonald & Wayne Johnson, but the Gothic has been redeemed by the likes of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN & TOP OF THE LAKE. "Contemporary Gothic & Horror Film" is now out in a $35 paperback from @anthempress.bsky.social
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The cover of the book "Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film: Transnational Perspectives," featuring a drawing of a skull decorated with lovely flowers and birds, in grey, white, and gold tones.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Sometimes a cloud isn't a cloud ... @whitmarshphd.bsky.social looks at "atmospheric invasions" by aliens in NOPE and BLOCK ISLAND SOUND as ecohorror in a new essay at Science Fiction Film & TV. Available at @projectmuse.bsky.social
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On the left, a screenshot of the article "Atmospheric invasions: Alien encounter as ecohorror in contemporary cinema" in plain text. On the right, an image from the 2022 film NOPE in which a woman runs away from a giant alien formation that looks like an origami-folded white sheet.
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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It's not *always* the priest, but … c'mon, it's always the priest. @1428publishing.bsky.social examines the famous Italian director's Catholic faith via his horror and giallo films in "Fulci's Inferno," new from @mcfarland.bsky.social.
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The cover of the book "Fulci's Inferno: Faith in the Films of a Horror and Giallo Auteur," featuring images from Lucio Fulci films, including a hanged priest and a scarred person's face from films in his Gates of Hell trilogy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Easy to find the occult in THE BABADOOK and TWIN PEAKS, but what about JFK or READY PLAYER ONE? In "Hollywood Haunts The World," Robert Guffey finds the hidden gnosticism, surrealism, and taboo in films & TV both in and out of the horror genre. New from @headpress.com
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The cover of the book "Hollywood Haunts The World" featuring an orange-toned, surrealist drawing of Death, holding his sickle, sitting in a chair under the Hollywood sign.
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I'll get you, my pretty! Andrea Fernández Pastor reviews a half-millennium of witchy women in art, film, and fashion in a new #openaccess essay. "The Representation of Women as the Source of Evil: The Evolution of the Witch Figure" in Arts. @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
doi.org/10.3390/arts...
On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Representation of Women as the Source of Evil: The Evolution of the Witch Figure" in plain text. On the right, one of the witchy female models from THE NEON DEMON, a young blonde woman bathed in red light with a spray of metallic stars painted over her right eye.
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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rrrriiip Aaaaaaiiiiieeee ... Damien Pollard listens to "Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film" focusing on thriller classics like THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE and SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS. New from @iupress.bsky.social.
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The cover of the book "Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film" with a bright yellow cover and a black rotary telephone. A black gloved hand picks up the receiver.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM