Monthly Archives: January 2010

Philip Kim: Famous Monsters of Filmland Back For a New Generation of Fans

January 6th, 2010 | Posted in Famous Monsters of Filmland, Forrest J. Ackerman

Like many people of my generation and older who love monsters, one of the magazines that nurtured this passion when I was a kid was Famous Monsters of Filmland started by the late Forrest J. Ackerman. The magazine had its ups and downs over the years, but it is back, not only in terms of […]

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Barry Keith Grant: The Night of the Living Dead (1990), Gender, and the Horror Film

January 4th, 2010 | Posted in 1990s, gender, George Romero, horror, zombie

If we probe horror in cinema more deeply we find it touches on a number of aspects of the human experience. One of these is related to gender. An excellent book that looks at various facets of this topic is The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (University of Texas Press, 1996). (The […]

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January’s Cinema of the Fantastic

January 1st, 2010 | Posted in Uncategorized

2010 is here, and it begins with a month that includes three films that hold promise for fans of the fantastic. The first is the vampire film Daybreakers. It tells the story of a a plague that spreads across the earth in 2019. This transforms “the majority of the world’s population into vampires. Humans are […]

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