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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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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.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Check out these incredible articles!
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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.
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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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🌱🎮💚📚✨ Did you know?

📢 New Issue Alert!

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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.
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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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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
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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
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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
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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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On the left, the cover of the book "Kinflix: Adoption & Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Film." The title is printed on what looks like a filmstrip, in aqua and orange. On the right, an image from the 2009 ORPHAN in which killer tot Esther stands over the bed of her sleeping baby sister, a murderous look on her face.
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
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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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A screenshot from the front page of Night Tide Magazine online, showing thumbnails for several articles about cannibalism and film images depicting various people, like a naked bearded man from LAST CANNIBAL WORLD.
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Image: two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves. The first card blends the character of Pinhead with Valak from The Conjuring 2 (“Angels to nun, demons to others...”), and the second card draws from the Scared Sacred's illustrated chapters to complete the set (“Malice in Chains”). Text: holpublishing.com; Halloween sale; 30% off everything.
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Happy Halloween, my ghoulies and ghosties! Send any unwanted Twizzlers or Smarties in the wolf's direction (you know he can't have chocolate). Awooo!
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October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Please follow this account if you like high-quality books on horror & film & pop culture niches. They are some of the best-looking volumes on the wolf's shelf!
kierlajanisse.bsky.social Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 24d
I'm relaunching my little imprint with a new website, new social media presence, and a new varied slate of projects - follow the official bluesky account at @spectacularoptical.bsky.social - books, films, screenings + more!
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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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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The cover of the book "Beyond Zombie Politics: The Art of George A. Romero's Cinema" showing a photo of the director from the side as he sits behind a camera on a movie set -- which appears to be MONKEY SHINES based on the capuchin monkey sitting on his shoulder.
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...

I love this film & I absolutely adore PWSA. It feels nice being right about this one for so long.

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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
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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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On the left, a screenshot of the online article "Exorcising patriarchy: the subversion of exorcism tropes in Verónica and the Devil’s Doorway" in plain text. On the right, an image from the film VERÓNICA in which an older teenage girl holds out a crucifix as if to ward some evil off, and two smaller children clutch at her legs in fear.
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
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"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