Professor Horror
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At Professor Horror, we don't just watch horror: we live it, study it, and celebrate it. Run by writers, critics, and scholars who've made horror both a passion and a career, our mission is to explore the genre in all its bloody brillance.
#TheIncomer (@sundancefest NEXT Innovator Award winner) is a bedtime story with teeth. Two siblings, one island, a bureaucrat with paperwork and LOTR fan-fic energy. Darkly funny, weird, about outsiders building realities from fantasy and fear. tinyurl.com/3u57599f
(Sundance Film Festival Review) THE INCOMER: Islands, Outsiders, and the Stories We Refuse to Leave
A Sundance NEXT Innovator Award winner, The Incomer by Lous Paxton is a darkly funny fantasy-drama about two isolated siblings whose island mythology is challenged when a mainland stranger arrives. Bl...
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February 7, 2026 at 9:43 PM
#TheIncomer (@sundancefest NEXT Innovator Award winner) is a bedtime story with teeth. Two siblings, one island, a bureaucrat with paperwork and LOTR fan-fic energy. Darkly funny, weird, about outsiders building realities from fantasy and fear. tinyurl.com/3u57599f
SXSW’s first Film & TV wave is here! @grubbycole will be on site keeping the fest running smooth. Check out his list of must see films at @sxsw.com this year. #SXSW #FilmFest #HorrorMovies. tinyurl.com/yz8r57fx
(SXSW) Grubby Cole Reveals Early SXSW Movie
SXSW announces its first wave of Film & TV titles, and festival favorite Grubby highlights early standouts like Ready or Not 2, They Will Kill You, and several buzzworthy indie horror picks still seek...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:27 AM
SXSW’s first Film & TV wave is here! @grubbycole will be on site keeping the fest running smooth. Check out his list of must see films at @sxsw.com this year. #SXSW #FilmFest #HorrorMovies. tinyurl.com/yz8r57fx
Alien splooge, practical-effect body horror, and a sharp jab at bodily autonomy Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant is gross, funny, and weirdly profound and Sundance's slimiest sci-fi comedy. tinyurl.com/mb5wmttf
(Sundance Film Festival) The Horrors of Pregnancy in MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT
A Sundance-premiering New Zealand horror-comedy, Mum I’m Alien Pregnant blends grotesque practical effects, alien genital humor, and sharp satire on bodily autonomy, overbearing parents, and the messy...
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February 1, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Alien splooge, practical-effect body horror, and a sharp jab at bodily autonomy Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant is gross, funny, and weirdly profound and Sundance's slimiest sci-fi comedy. tinyurl.com/mb5wmttf
Here are some articles from the Sundance Film Festival Press Inclusion Initiative. I was absolutely thrilled to be part of this, and will definitely cherish my time at Sundance forever.
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Meet the Members of the 2026 Press Inclusion Initiative Cohort - sundance.org
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival began on January 22 and since last Thursday, hundreds of members of the press have been in Park City, Salt Lake City, and beyond (via festival.sundance.org) experiencin...
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February 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Here are some articles from the Sundance Film Festival Press Inclusion Initiative. I was absolutely thrilled to be part of this, and will definitely cherish my time at Sundance forever.
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Wicker Than Fiction: Love Without Ownership. #WICKER, premiering at Sundance, reimagines the fairy tale as a romance built on agency, devotion, and refusal to be owned. Olivia Colman stars in a story that is decidedly NOT Beauty and the Beast. tinyurl.com/3jpmjjws
(Sundance Film Festival) Once You Go WICKER: Love, Autonomy, and Fairy-Tale Defiance
Wicker Than Fiction: Love Without Ownership — WICKER, premiering at Sundance, reimagines the fairy tale as a romance built on agency, devotion, and refusal to be owned. Olivia Colman stars in a story ...
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January 27, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Wicker Than Fiction: Love Without Ownership. #WICKER, premiering at Sundance, reimagines the fairy tale as a romance built on agency, devotion, and refusal to be owned. Olivia Colman stars in a story that is decidedly NOT Beauty and the Beast. tinyurl.com/3jpmjjws
#Buddy played the first midnight at @Sundance and it brought the crowds Mascot horror, puppet chaos, more weirdness from the mind of Casper Kelly. tinyurl.com/59fvbp6v
BUDDY Is a Unicorn-Fueled Descent Into Mascot Horror
Casper Kelly’s BUDDY twists kids’ TV nostalgia into mascot horror, blending puppet carnage, unsettling cheer, and a surreal collision of TV and reality.
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January 24, 2026 at 2:15 AM
#Buddy played the first midnight at @Sundance and it brought the crowds Mascot horror, puppet chaos, more weirdness from the mind of Casper Kelly. tinyurl.com/59fvbp6v
Check out our newest column! Our resident linguist “Wise Up” Katie Weiss dissects how language, family, and animal communication collide in Primate (2025)...and why it makes the horror hit harder. tinyurl.com/4wxw5nt7
(Horrified Linguist) “THEY THOUGHT HE WAS FAMILY:” Primate (2025)
Our new resident linguist “Wise Up” Katie Weiss launches The Horrified Linguist with a chilling analysis of Primate (2025), exploring language, communication, and what happens when a beloved “family m...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Check out our newest column! Our resident linguist “Wise Up” Katie Weiss dissects how language, family, and animal communication collide in Primate (2025)...and why it makes the horror hit harder. tinyurl.com/4wxw5nt7
Professor Horror is headed to #Sundance for the first time. Midnight chaos, slow-burn dread, and genre weirdness await. These are the 5 films we’re watching closely. Expect vibes, fear, and emotional damage (the good kind). tinyurl.com/yu4u787d
Five Horror Movies We’re Dying to See at Sundance (Professor Horror Goes to Park City)
Professor Horror attends Sundance for the first time and highlights five must-see horror films, from Midnight chaos to international dread.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Professor Horror is headed to #Sundance for the first time. Midnight chaos, slow-burn dread, and genre weirdness await. These are the 5 films we’re watching closely. Expect vibes, fear, and emotional damage (the good kind). tinyurl.com/yu4u787d
Life aboard the HSS Matilda is designed to keep order by producing suffering. Rivers Solomon’s AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS is institutional horror...where race, medicine, and power are enforced through policy, not villains. A brutal, necessary read: tinyurl.com/y7t7j9mk
An Unkindness of Ghosts Shows Why the World Is the Real Monster
A review of Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts examining disability, care, and institutional horror aboard a generation ship built to produce suffering.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Life aboard the HSS Matilda is designed to keep order by producing suffering. Rivers Solomon’s AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS is institutional horror...where race, medicine, and power are enforced through policy, not villains. A brutal, necessary read: tinyurl.com/y7t7j9mk
#PRIMATE is fast, nasty, and wildly fun. Big practical gore, a chimp that feels terrifyingly real, and crowd moments that had my theater laughing and screaming. If you love creature features that go hard, check it out in theaters today! tinyurl.com/22benetd
(Movies) All Gore, No Monkeying Around: PRIMATE Delivers Killer-Chimp Chaos
PRIMATE delivers killer-chimp horror with practical gore, crowd-pleasing kills, Deaf representation, and a rabies-fueled rampage made for the big screen.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
#PRIMATE is fast, nasty, and wildly fun. Big practical gore, a chimp that feels terrifyingly real, and crowd moments that had my theater laughing and screaming. If you love creature features that go hard, check it out in theaters today! tinyurl.com/22benetd
A creepy spoken-word horror short narrated by Danielle Harris turns gendered violence into an urban legend: whispered about, passed down, and never acted on. Watch "Jennifer Murphy Still Lives" and read our analysis at Professor Horror. tinyurl.com/3ftpjzpk
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Horror as Absence: When a Body Is Replaced by Memory in JENNIFER MURPHY STILL LIVES
A creepy spoken-word horror short narrated by Danielle Harris turns gendered violence into an urban legend, exposing how communities whisper instead of act.
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January 5, 2026 at 6:56 PM
A creepy spoken-word horror short narrated by Danielle Harris turns gendered violence into an urban legend: whispered about, passed down, and never acted on. Watch "Jennifer Murphy Still Lives" and read our analysis at Professor Horror. tinyurl.com/3ftpjzpk
#horror #horrorshort
#horror #horrorshort
New Year, New Column!
In Purgatory Video, writer @prestonfassel.bsky.social digs up obscure movies. This month, he revisits #AmazonWomenOnTheMoon, a bizarre 1987 sketch comedy by horror legends that predicted the media hellscape we’re living in now. tinyurl.com/ms4vyv3w
In Purgatory Video, writer @prestonfassel.bsky.social digs up obscure movies. This month, he revisits #AmazonWomenOnTheMoon, a bizarre 1987 sketch comedy by horror legends that predicted the media hellscape we’re living in now. tinyurl.com/ms4vyv3w
(Purgatory Video) In a Reverse Cregger, Some of the Best Minds in 1980s Horror Delivered a Culturally Incisive Comedy with AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON
A deep dive into Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), this installment of Purgatory Video explores how horror legends Joe Dante, John Landis, and Carl Gottlieb turned late-’80s television culture into a s...
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January 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
New Year, New Column!
In Purgatory Video, writer @prestonfassel.bsky.social digs up obscure movies. This month, he revisits #AmazonWomenOnTheMoon, a bizarre 1987 sketch comedy by horror legends that predicted the media hellscape we’re living in now. tinyurl.com/ms4vyv3w
In Purgatory Video, writer @prestonfassel.bsky.social digs up obscure movies. This month, he revisits #AmazonWomenOnTheMoon, a bizarre 1987 sketch comedy by horror legends that predicted the media hellscape we’re living in now. tinyurl.com/ms4vyv3w
Love Halloween III? Hate it? Today, horror newbie #Pleatherface explores this polarizing film on his first-ever watch...going in with almost no prior knowledge and discovering a strange tale of masks, media, and consumer terror. tinyurl.com/237zhxwp
Fresh Meat: Discovering Halloween III and the Horror of Consumerism
A first-time horror viewer revisits Halloween III: Season of the Witch, unpacking its themes of consumerism, technology, and corporate evil.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Love Halloween III? Hate it? Today, horror newbie #Pleatherface explores this polarizing film on his first-ever watch...going in with almost no prior knowledge and discovering a strange tale of masks, media, and consumer terror. tinyurl.com/237zhxwp
ANACONDA (2025) is a movie about making movies...and loving the bad ones. A love letter to messes, midlife movie dreams, and why sometimes the joke is the point. Don’t expect the first move and just go to have a good time. Out Dec 25. #AnacondaMovie tinyurl.com/2yj9mv8h
(Review) Anaconda (2025): A Movie About Making Movies (and Loving the Bad Ones)
Anaconda (2025) review: a witty, self-aware comedy with Jack Black and Paul Rudd that proves some movies are just meant to be fun and not perfect.
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December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
ANACONDA (2025) is a movie about making movies...and loving the bad ones. A love letter to messes, midlife movie dreams, and why sometimes the joke is the point. Don’t expect the first move and just go to have a good time. Out Dec 25. #AnacondaMovie tinyurl.com/2yj9mv8h
Happy last night of Chanukah to everyone!
December 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Happy last night of Chanukah to everyone!
Paul Feig’s @housemaidmovie.bsky.social is glossy domestic horror with camp bite: weaponizing class, gaslighting, and “nice guy” masculinity. Amanda Seyfried goes feral. Messy, unsettling, and very intentional.
(Review) Welcome to the Perfect Home: Class, Control, and Catastrophe in THE HOUSEMAID
A stylish, campy thriller with teeth. Paul Feig’s The Housemaid weaponizes domestic space, gaslighting, and class power through ferocious performances.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Paul Feig’s @housemaidmovie.bsky.social is glossy domestic horror with camp bite: weaponizing class, gaslighting, and “nice guy” masculinity. Amanda Seyfried goes feral. Messy, unsettling, and very intentional.
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We love international horror and @amylouahava.bsky.social made The Curse sound like one we need to see immediately.
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The Curse // Like, Share, Die: Fantastic Fest 2025 Review - Horror Movie Blog
AmyLou Ahava has found a new J-horror in the Fantastic Fest schedule and is here to tell you why 'The Curse' deserves your attention.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We love international horror and @amylouahava.bsky.social made The Curse sound like one we need to see immediately.
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#25SlaysofWinter Winter horror hits different when the snow isn’t just scenery but a psychological trap. From #TheShining’s hedge maze to #TheThing’s whiteouts, here’s why the coldest films freeze the mind before the body. tinyurl.com/3wkcmmh6.
The Weather Outside is Frightful: Snowbound Isolation and the Horror of Winter Horror
A deep dive into snowbound horror and the psychology of winter isolation, exploring how films like The Shining, The Thing, Frozen, and The Lodge transform snow, whiteouts, and cabin fever into cinemat...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#25SlaysofWinter Winter horror hits different when the snow isn’t just scenery but a psychological trap. From #TheShining’s hedge maze to #TheThing’s whiteouts, here’s why the coldest films freeze the mind before the body. tinyurl.com/3wkcmmh6.
For Day 2 of #25SlaysOfWinter, I asked a jolly bearded man to bring me some Christmas found footage films… and he delivered!🎄📹 Here are 10 festive found-footage horrors (and comedies) to add to your holiday cheer. tinyurl.com/2nv4a3jv
All I Want for Christmas Is Found Footage: 10 Films to Enjoy this Holiday Season
Discover 10 Christmas found footage films delivered by a jolly bearded man himself. A festive horror watchlist filled with shaky cams, chills, and holiday dread.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
For Day 2 of #25SlaysOfWinter, I asked a jolly bearded man to bring me some Christmas found footage films… and he delivered!🎄📹 Here are 10 festive found-footage horrors (and comedies) to add to your holiday cheer. tinyurl.com/2nv4a3jv
Day 1 of #25SlaysOfWinter is here! Santa was always a monster, and this piece dives into #RareExports and how this Finnish masterpiece reinvented Christmas horror through ancient folklore. tinyurl.com/yucefc8c
From Slasher Santa to Ancient Winter Demon: How RARE EXPORTS Rewrote Christmas Horror
Explore how Rare Exports transformed Santa from a cheesy slasher trope into an ancient winter demon, redefining Christmas horror through folklore.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Day 1 of #25SlaysOfWinter is here! Santa was always a monster, and this piece dives into #RareExports and how this Finnish masterpiece reinvented Christmas horror through ancient folklore. tinyurl.com/yucefc8c
Welcome to #25SlaysOfWinter, Professor Horror’s month-long celebration of seasonal terror. From folklore to snowbound dread to resurrected Christmas ghosts, we’re honoring the darkest nights of the year the way horror fans do best: with fear. New piece EVERY DAY in December. 👻 🎁 ❄️
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Welcome to #25SlaysOfWinter, Professor Horror’s month-long celebration of seasonal terror. From folklore to snowbound dread to resurrected Christmas ghosts, we’re honoring the darkest nights of the year the way horror fans do best: with fear. New piece EVERY DAY in December. 👻 🎁 ❄️
Need some holiday-themed horror to help you get thru #Thanksgiving? Would a killer turkey or cannibals be more pleasant than your family? Well, we have curated a delicious Thanksgiving menu to keep you full during this season. So, pull up a chair and dig in! www.professorhorror.com/A-Horror-Fan...
The Feast of Fear: The Best Thanksgiving Horror Movies to Add to Your Holiday Table
Celebrate Thanksgiving with a full menu of horror films—from cult slashers to killer turkeys. A curated feast of Thanksgiving horror for every taste.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Need some holiday-themed horror to help you get thru #Thanksgiving? Would a killer turkey or cannibals be more pleasant than your family? Well, we have curated a delicious Thanksgiving menu to keep you full during this season. So, pull up a chair and dig in! www.professorhorror.com/A-Horror-Fan...
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Need something to watch while you're hiding from your overbearing relatives? Oh, come on now. We can't be the only ones. Well, here's a list from @amylouahava.bsky.social that should give you some ideas, picked straight from our vault.
5 Horror Movies To Celebrate Tobe Hooper This Week - Horror Movie Blog
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November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Need something to watch while you're hiding from your overbearing relatives? Oh, come on now. We can't be the only ones. Well, here's a list from @amylouahava.bsky.social that should give you some ideas, picked straight from our vault.
What do you think have been the 100 best horror movies of the 21st century? How does your list compare to our list?
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
What do you think have been the 100 best horror movies of the 21st century? How does your list compare to our list?
From silent cinema to antisemitic caricature, Nosferatu’s Count Orlok has haunted Jewish identity for a century. In our first guest lecture at Professor Horror, we’re thrilled to host @prestonfassel.bsky.social on reclaiming Orlok: tinyurl.com/y4psn4mh.
Reclaiming Nosferatu: On Vampires, Antisemitism, and Horror’s Hebrew Problem
Reclaiming Nosferatu: On Vampires, Antisemitism, and Horror’s Hebrew Problem explores how Count Orlok became tied to antisemitic caricature and why Jewish horror fans can reclaim the iconic vampire as...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
From silent cinema to antisemitic caricature, Nosferatu’s Count Orlok has haunted Jewish identity for a century. In our first guest lecture at Professor Horror, we’re thrilled to host @prestonfassel.bsky.social on reclaiming Orlok: tinyurl.com/y4psn4mh.