Emory University, Zombies, and the Significance of Nihilistic Horror
On Halloween I had the opportunity to be a part of a panel on religion and zombies at Emory University’s symposium on Zombies and Zombethics. This session was sold out, and filled with lots of interested listeners. My colleague and friend Scott Poole, author of Monsters in America, was one of my fellow panelists, and […]
United Monster Talent Agency
In honor of Universal Studios 100th anniversary, their release of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein on the big screen with Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events, and Halloween on Wednesday, I am drawing attention again to a great short film I’ve looked at previously. It’s The United Monster Talent Agency.
NCM Fathom Events Brings Three Horror Classics to Theaters This Fall
Prepare for chills and thrills this fall as three timeless horror classics hit movie theaters nationwide. As a part of their classic movie series, NCM Fathom Events is presenting Alfred Hitchcock’s horror masterpiece The Birds and the Boris Karloff hits Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Each will be shown for one day only, don’t miss […]
The Zombie Mob Podcast: Discussion of [REC]
Recently, I was a guest on The Zombie Mob podcast along with Kim Paffenroth, author of many books including Gospel of the Living Dead, and Scott Poole, author of Satan in America and Monsters in America, and all of us contributors to the forthcoming The Undead and Theology. Our host was Darryl Pierce. In the […]
The Possession Presents Jewish Perspective on Possession and Exorcism
The Possession is Sam Raimi’s most recent horror film, and it also represents Hollywood horror’s latest installment in our ongoing fascination with the idea of possession by a dark spiritual force and the related process of exorcism. What makes Raimi’s film different from so many of the films that explore this theme is it’s Jewish […]
Call for Papers – The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture
Call for Proposals: The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture Editors: Carl Sederholm (csederholm@byu.edu) and Jeffrey Weinstock (Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu) 250 word proposals are sought for chapter contributions to an edited scholarly collection on H. P. Lovecraft and his place in 21st century literature, film, media, and popular culture. This collection will consider the […]
Call for Papers: Special issue of Horror Studies
Call for Papers: Special issue of Horror Studies “Paranormal TV” Helen Wheatley, in Gothic Television, argues that beginning in the early 1990s, gothic texts became particularly visible in television; like the gothic, paranormal-themed television became especially prevalent beginning in the 1990s and, again like the gothic, paranormal television has cut across genres, with particular visibility […]
