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November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
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
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
@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
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November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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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November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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November 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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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November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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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November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
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November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The kids aren't alright. Marina Fedosik considers Damien (THE OMEN), Esther (ORPHAN), Dren (SPLICE), and that grown-ass test tube baby from EMBRYO in her new book about adopted and created children of cinema. "Kinflix" is new from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Eat too much candy this Halloween? Instead gorge on essays about cannibalism at @nighttidemag.bsky.social. Neurodivergence in RAW, family chompin' in SOMOS LO QUE HAY, Deodato's Italian flesh + +. Elijah Fischer / Sarah Anne Stubbs @momoshaty.bsky.social Jill Vranken / Megan Kenny
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November 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There's more to George A. Romero than Dawn, Day & Night. "Beyond Zombie Politics" spans the director's oeuvre and films like SEASON OF THE WITCH + KNIGHTRIDERS. @clairecornillon.bsky.social @davidrochelorelei.bsky.social @upmississippi.bsky.social
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October 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Hey y’all, my celebration of Paul WS Anderson’s EVENT HORIZON is now live: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/halloween-sc...

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Halloween Screams: Event Horizon
Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.
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October 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Is the standard male priest + possessed woman too … American? Maria Gil Poisa looks at one Spanish and one Irish exorcism film to find out. "Exorcising patriarchy: the subversion of exorcism tropes in Verónica & The Devil's Doorway" is new from @tscreensjournal.bsky.social.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This year, we're offering a terrifyingly deep discount of 40% off ALL horror titles with coupon code HORROR40. But hurry—these slashed prices will become ghostlore on Samhain, November 1!

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October 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"You're the only part of me I don't hate." György Kalmár analyzes THE SUBSTANCE in line with feminist film theory and as New French Extremity in his new essay for Acta Universitatis Sapientiae/Film and Media Studies. #openaccess
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Provocative Substance: Challenges Posed by The Substance to Feminist Film Criticism - Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
The present article explores the ambiguous treatment of female bodies in the film The Substance (Coralie Fargeat 2024) in order to outline some of the political dilemmas and representational paradoxes...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM