28 Weeks Later: How Nostalgia Kills
Or, you can't select only the pasts you like.
Eleanor’s Horrors
A series of essays about feminism and horror, literature and history, translation and transformation.
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28 Days Later (2002): the First Contemporary Zombie Film (was not technically a zombie film)
I’ll start by saying that this is one of my all-time favorite zombie films.
Bonus Content: Amazing Trailer for my new book!
Um, THANK YOU, Princeton University Press!! This is awesome!
Nolan's Odyssey (2026): Horror-Epic for the Boys
It’s not an easy thing to do, adapting an epic story from Antiquity for the modern day cinema.
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Something must have been in the water in 1960.
Witches and their Christian Allies
I’ve been writing a lot lately about films, so this week it felt like the right time to turn back to some deep cultural history.
Hush (2016): Silence and Gender-Based Violence
Get this.
Happy 4th of July: Jaws (1975) as a Study of American Masculinity
When I first saw Jaws in the 1980s, I was probably about 9 or 10 years old, and it was around the 4th of July, which is right when the film takes place.
It (Again) and Weapons (2025): How Horror Teaches us about Child Abuse
As you know from last week, I’ve recently read It (1985), an absolutely canonical work of American horror by Stephen King, and I have more to say about it than I could fit into last week’s post, so here we go: round two.
It (1985) Hit its DV Marks Hard
Embarrassing confession.