“They say that one evening, during a strong snowstorm, the spirit of the snow turned into the terrible snow witch, and roamed the mountains and plains. And if a man accidentally spied her, the snow woman immediately took possession of ...

“Can anybody make sense of what’s happening here?”  asks Jong-goo, innocently, and for many viewers of The Wailing, the answer is a resounding no. Many of the attempted explanations of Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing (2016) make the same mistake: they ...

“There are far worse things awaiting man than death…” – Bela Lugosi as the Count in Universal Pictures’ Dracula (1931). Dracula, the fabled Count of the Carpathians, has thrilled audiences on an intercontinental scale since his literary origination in 1897 ...

There’s no need to praise Hammer Films. Been done. The explanation of why is something personal. It’s hard to explain to a generation raised on DVDs, and sad they have nothing exactly like the sacred experience called “Going to the ...

The Gothic is a vast literary and cinematic mode, incorporating the supernatural terror of ghosts, ghouls, mummies and werewolves, as well as ‘real horror’ of insanity, murder, torture and necrophilia, with settings ranging from shadowy corridors in isolated castles, to ...

Over 120 years ago early cinema pioneer Georges Méliès made Le Manoir du diable (1896), an ambitious film considered now by many to be the first example of cinematic horror because of its Gothic themes, even if the genre of ...

When people think of scary things, they often think of monsters. The monster under the bed. The monster in the closet. The monster that destroys Tokyo. It’s the latter that we’re concerned with here, monsters that at their normal size ...

In feminist theory, there are two distinct outcomes that stems from the pressures of domesticity. As Susan Fraiman notes in her work Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins, literary characters are driven to various extremes by too much house, ...

Giant monsters have been entertaining cinemagoers for over 90 years.  Ever since Harry O. Hoyt’s prehistoric adventure, The Lost World, dazzled and frightened audiences in 1925, behemoth beasts have gone on to become cornerstones of science fiction, fantasy and horror ...

In 1932, Universal Pictures released The Mummy. The studio was coming off a financial high from 1931, when Frankenstein and Dracula were substantial hits. Capitalizing on a heightened interest in ancient Egyptian antiquities, that was triggered by the 1922 discovery ...