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Made at a time when America was facing crises on many fronts, William Friedkin’s film has profound things to say about humanity and society.
There is a liberal splattering of gore, with the obligatory twisting heads and spewing of foul liquids.
The Blackening excels at subverting the very stereotypes it plays upon for its humour.
Our new wave of horror carries the legacy of Australia’s strong horror history – while finally signalling the shedding of some cultural biases.
Horror filmmakers are wrestling with space in cities and what it means to share it.
The new sincerity of horror has been sapping the genre of its fun. Netflix’s newest Australian offering is just the latest victim.
A raft of horror films remind us of the grip troubled sleep once had on our imaginations.
In reality, most Roman Catholic exorcists recognise the danger of encouraging a person suffering from auditory hallucinations to believe that these are demonic.
In a thin-obsessed culture, fatness has become its own kind of monster.
Far from recoiling in terror, fans have dubbed animatronic murderous doll M3gan a ‘queer icon’ – a horror expert explains why.
When it comes to our ethical duties to animals, representation and respect should go hand in hoof.
Everyone is going ‘goblin mode’, but does the trend unfairly malign goblins of folklore?
A wave of new horror films leant into Tony Blair’s Asbo policy demonising young working class men, portraying them as the monsters that society should be scared of.
A moral panic fanned by the tabloid press led to crusaders seeking legislation to regulate the home video industry and a slew of low-budget horror films.
Long past Margaret Atwood’s novel, the new season is increasingly violent – and the audience will find themselves increasingly numb.
Now that the whole world is echoing Romero’s films, everyone can learn from his legacy.
Some horror films explore women’s struggles for empowerment, sexual freedom and self-fulfilment. Six movies show the ghost, bride, mother, vampiress, witch and monster as guises of vengeful women.
By focusing on African Americans’ experiences of racism in the 1950s, the new series aims to address HP Lovecraft’s racist views.
Sixty years after it premiered, Psycho remains Hitchcock’s most celebrated film. But it is really two films, glued together by the most iconic scene in cinema history.
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