Monthly Archives: February 2011

Vote for the Rondo Awards

February 14th, 2011 | Posted in horror, Rondo Awards

The Ninth Annual Rondo Hatton Awards are now accepting completed ballots and submissions. The criteria is stated as, “Every Rondo nominee below is being recognized for a significant achievement in the genre during the year of 2010.” I wonder if blogs receive as much respect and recognition in the horror subculture as they do in […]

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TheoFantastique Podcast 2.1 on The Rite

February 11th, 2011 | Posted in demonic, devil in film, Douglas Cowan, Paul Meehan, podcast, possession, Satan, W. Scott Poole

TheoFantastique Podcast, Vol. 2, no. 1 is now available. It involves a discussion on The Rite with past guests and contributors, including Douglas Cowan, author of a number of books including Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen; Paul Meehan, also the author of a number of books including Horror Noir: Where Cinema’s […]

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Call for Manuscripts: “Where Horror Dwells”

February 10th, 2011 | Posted in horror

“Where Horror Dwells: Locating Horror across Media Landscapes” Editors: Drew Beard and Patricia Oman, University of Oregon Psychoanalysis and gender have dominated scholarship on the horror film for several decades, but they are by no means the only lenses through which horror can be viewed. The fields of ecocriticism, urban studies, transnationalism, and globalization provide […]

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Cinefantastique Online – The RITE: Satan, Possession, and Unlikely Sources of Faith

February 8th, 2011 | Posted in Cinefantastique, demonic, demonology, devil in film, horror, possession

My latest contribution to Cinefantastique Online is now available, an essay titled “THE RITE: Satan, Possession, and Unlikely Sources of Faith.” From the introduction: The Devil and the related phenomenon of demonic possession, have been the source of several horror films for the years. Previous decades offered THE EXORCIST (1973), with its Roman Catholic perspective, […]

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Fantastic Super Bowl Commercials

February 7th, 2011 | Posted in fantasy, television

The Super Bowl for 2011 included a few good commercials. Two of them were fantastic, and by that I refer to the fact that they drew upon the genres of the fantastic, in these instances from fantasy. Here are the two standouts for TheoFantastique. First was a commercial for the Volkswagen Passat that featured a […]

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Guillermo del Toro and Auteur Metaphysics

February 4th, 2011 | Posted in fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro, horror, religion

For a long time I have been interested in the influences on those who make great films and television, and how these influences are reflected in the art they produce. This is especially the case with those artists who embody their art, their art coming out as a result of the creative passions they live […]

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Stephen T. Asma – On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears

February 1st, 2011 | Posted in Darwinian evolution, monster theory, monsters, monstrous

Quite some time ago I promoted a forthcoming interview with Stephen Asma regarding his book On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears (Oxford University Press, 2009). As I worked my way through my growing collection of books for research, review, and interviews, On Monsters finally crawled to the top, and I am pleased […]

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