There is a moment about midway through Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn when Kate Fuller (Juliette Lewis), having been hurtled into an RV along with the rest of her family and forced to ferry two notorious criminals across the ...

In his book Gothic Pathologies, the critic David Punter observes that the complex, contradictory and somewhat confusing nature of adolescence is integral to gothic fiction. As a fundamentally transgressive genre, a fictional mode preoccupied with the crossing of boundaries, the ...

The Case of the Bloody Iris was originally released in 1972 under the enigmatic title Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? (Why Those Strange Drops of Blood on Jennifer’s Body?). In a film defined by the ...

There is something otherworldly about teenage girls. To those of us who have never been teenage girls, or those of us whose adolescences have receded into a dim bubblegum-scented, glitter-strewn past, they seem inherently alien. The intensity of their friendships, ...

Human beings generally tend to view science and the supernatural as oppositional forces: the bright light of rationalism forever struggling against the darkness of outmoded superstition. However, in the nineteenth century, as new technological developments and the accelerated pace of ...