2022 is the 90th anniversary of the many amazing classic horror films that were released in 1932, among them Freaks, Island of Lost Souls, The Most Dangerous Game, The Old Dark House, The Mummy, and White Zombie. To mark this anniversary, Horror Homeroom’s sixth special issue takes up classic horror, which we’re defining as any […]
Erin Harrington The Swedish silent film Häxan (1922), “The Witch,” is a remarkable account of witchcraft that offers an early intervention into how we conceptualize the effects of the interplay between truth and fantasy in horror. Danish director Benjamin Christensen’s film is a hallucinogenic documentary-narrative hybrid, presented in seven chapters, which expanded the scope and […]
Margaret J. Yankovich This article is dedicated to my brother, Johnny, who always finds me the best Illustrated Classics horror novels. The first horror novel I ever truly loved was Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (1818). At twelve years old, I was as avid a film fanatic as I was a reader, and […]
Katherine Cottle The last few years have not been kind to the movie theater industry. The crushing competition of streaming services, rising ticket and refreshment costs, and the plethora of available home theater options had already caused a major decline in viewership, even before the pandemic hit (Barnes). The fear of contagious transmission of COVID-19 […]
Aíne Norris Ninety years ago, Freaks (1932) puzzled audiences with a message that asked viewers to reconsider the sideshow and the performers therein. Freaks asked audiences to consider the humanity of sideshow performers in a way that the shows traditionally removed, questioned, or distorted for profit. Based on reception, audiences in 1932 were not ready […]