Cleansing Our Sanctuaries: Ghost-Hunters and Home-Improvement
What do any number of ghost-hunting and home-improvement television programs have in common? Nothing, you might say? Don’t be so sure. I am working my way through my growing stack of reading relating to the fantastic, and this weekend I read a few chapters in The Philosophy of Horror, edited by Thomas Fahy (The University [...]
Carrol L. Fry – Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film
Various aspects of the occult, or as it is more commonly referred to today in academic circles, Western esotericism, have long been facets that have informed storytelling and fear in horror films. A recent book by Carrol Fry touches on this topic, titled Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca and Spiritualism in Film (Rosemont [...]
The Unborn: Promising Horror for January 2009
My friends and neighbors who know of my interest in horror and other aspects of the fantastic assume that I enjoy every film connected with the genre. Many times I am asked if I have seen the television ads for a new film and whether I am going, and my answer is often that I [...]
