The very isolation of lighthouses and their straddling of that hazy, liminal space between land and sea grant them a unique impact when it comes to their symbolic potency in storytelling. Not quite ‘at sea’ but still not wholly ‘on ...

The Lodge So ubiquitous is the stereotype of the ‘evil’ stepmother that we almost fall into an Owellian-like variant of Newspeak to describe her opposite: we don’t really think of ‘good’ stepmothers as we do ‘un-evil’ stepmothers, ‘double-plus-unevil’ stepmothers perhaps ...

While mid-20th century Italian horror cinema is linked most commonly to figures like Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Paolo Heusch’s Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961) – aka Lycanthropus – is a significant yet commonly overlooked entry in both Italian ...

While films like Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976) might most immediately leap to mind when we think of cinematic critiques of television news, horror has also often questioned the power and ubiquity of this particular mode of information – and propaganda ...