Shane H. Weathers Slasher remakes are rarely heralded as peak cinema. In a particularly fickle fandom, usually the best they can hope to achieve is a small cult following of people who enjoyed the new direction they took, such as with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Marcus Nispel, 2003), Black Christmas (Glen Morgan, 2006), Halloween (Rob […]
Nicole Huff The newest addition to our current Black Horror Renaissance comes from none other than Ryan Coogler in his vampire horror debut Sinners. As a Black person from the South, I was in awe of how Coogler portrays the Jim Crow South as still full of Black hope and joy despite its cotton-field-filled backdrops. […]
Johanna Isaacson In March 2025 Aislinn Clarke visited my alma mater, University of California, Santa Cruz as part of a symposium exploring creative and critical intersections in the work of UCSC and Queens University Belfast faculty. I was fortunate to attend a screening of Aislinn’s amazing new folk horror film, Fréwaka, and to have the […]
Adam Pasen Stop me if you’ve heard this one: something horrific happens in the 1960s on a street called Elm. The murderer is subsequently killed in an act of vigilante justice, but that isn’t the end of it. In a series of bizarre “coincidences,” those involved start to die… gruesomely. Despite the mounting evidence that […]
Abby Trainor Paul G. Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World (2018) and its film adaptation Knock at the Cabin (2023) present a “uniquely twenty-first century” (Tremblay 157) type of horror: how physical violence can spawn from a digital/cyber space. Both novel and film feature a queer married couple and their daughter being […]
Reece Goodall The Pokémon franchise is full of ghosts and spirits even outside of their Ghost-type Pokémon, and the appearance of such paranormal activity dates back to the first title. In Red/Blue, a young girl NPC in Lavender Town asks the player about an unseen white hand on their shoulder after inquiring whether they believe […]
Capitalism hates us. We needn’t look far for proof. Firestorms, hurricanes, floods, derechos—capitalism is inimical to the continued existence of life on Earth. Twenty-first century investment banks may trumpet their commitments to climate policy, but the people who run so-called responsible investing units show how little they care about this destruction. In a 2022 conference […]
Popular thinking is that women scream in horror films because it is an inherently misogynistic media genre – that women are screaming because they are being terrorized. But this reading de-politicizes an inherently political act. While women do scream because they are afraid, they also scream in anger, grief, or simply to be heard. A […]
In Severance’s latest episode, “The After Hours” (season 2, ep. 9), the show makes its most direct reference yet to another television series. Could it be more appropriate that it’s The Twilight Zone? Specifically, the thirty-fourth episode in season one, “The After Hours,” which aired on June 10, 1960. For those of us who like […]