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-Harry M. Benshoff’s, “The monster and the homosexual” is an article that talks about how homosexuals and monsters were at one point strongly connected to each other. This would go on to an individual, family, and community level. Homosexuality was seen as so monstrous that it was even tied into being compared to a pedophileContinue reading “The Monster & the Homosexual”

-Robin R. Means Coleman’s, “Studying Blacks and Horror Films,” is an elaborate article that explains to readers about Black Horror films and Blacks in Horror. The article also goes on to explain the Horror Noire and the Century of Black Horror. Coleman gives a great understanding of how black viewers have seen themselves as racistContinue reading “Heard You Were Looking for the Candyman, Professor.. A analysis of Blacks in Horror & Black Horror”

-David Skal: “It’s Alive! I’m Afraid!” ​The Monster Show is about how people began to be fascinated with how monstrous giving birth could be as well as the viewing of freaks who are disfigured or shouldn’t be entertaining to look at. Skal goes on and talks about movies such as Freaks, Rosemary’s Baby, Eraserhead, andContinue reading “The Babadook Is Alive, And I’m Afraid”

-“Trying to Survive the Darker Side: 1980s Family Horror” by Tony Williams talks about how horror in the 1980s was developing and what direction it was going in. Horror at this time period was at a seeming relapse because a lot of horror films were copies of 70s slashers. However, Stepfather films began to ariseContinue reading “Trying to Survive A Stepfather”

Gruesome, terrifying, chilling. These are a just a few adjectives that describe the eerily realistic filming of the killer Leatherface at his Texan home. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre tells a story of how 5 teenagers driving through rural Texas happen upon an cannibalistic family that utilizes psychological terror and a chainsaw on their victims. ThoughContinue reading “The Apocalyptic Dimension of a Chainsaw Massacre”

A majority of young high school teenage girls knows what it’s like to be in an apprehensive situation. These situations can be in a domestic household or somewhere non-domestic. Unfortunately, home and high school can be a place of physical or emotional abuse carried out by bullies or family members that create an environment ofContinue reading “The Horror of Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty”

“What an excellent day for an exorcism.” Declares the Devil. A cold chilling statement from Beelzebub himself. William Freidkin’s 1973 The Exorcist explores and shows the idea for people around the world an intrinsic feeling that there exists an outside realm of an established dogma that defy conventional science and logic. The Exorcist focuses onContinue reading “A Most Monstrous Exorcism”

What happens when a director decides to mix a slasher film with a murder mystery? Scream is what happens. Director Wes Craven produces a terrifying film which utilizes every stereotype of the slasher film and satires them. The opening scene is one of the most haunting images for teenagers and parents alike. Scream starts outContinue reading “Do you like Scary Movies?”

It’s a night of masquerade, of offering to the dead. It’s when autumn leaves dance across sidewalks, when children pose as ghost and ghouls in the hope of getting candy. Halloween is the night when evil spirits wreak havoc; when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is at its thinnest.Continue reading “The Boogeyman’s Body, Herself”

Problems with identity are something of a trend with horror movies. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was originally thought to be sleepwalking: patients would switch between their normal consciousness and an unconscious state. However, after more observation of patients, it is observed that many patients had previously suffered traumatic experiences or nervous disorders, which had triggeredContinue reading “The Psycho’s Use of Scopophilia and His Gaze”