What makes the modern Vampire?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96356392   This is an interesting report about how vampires are “…a perfect reflection of the culture that creates them.” and how when you look at vampires from any year you can see what was frightening culture.   This point is interesting, however, I don’t think the report goes into it enough. A contributor mentions [...]

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Dracula’s side

While reading Dracula I became really curious as to why Bram Stoker narrated his book from only a few individuals view point.  The book took in a form from either a diary entry or letter coming from Lucy, Mina, Jonathan or Dr. Seward but not from who the title is named after. I, out of all [...]

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Horror Film Series in Rochester

« Envisioning Russia: Four Mosfilm Masterworks from the Soviet Era Hal Ashby: The Perennial Misfit » The Horror! The Horror! 2008 <!– Published by Michael August 22nd, 2008 in Program Highlights. –> Get ready for your hair to stand on end. The Dryden’s perennial selection of blood-curdling horror movies will be offered Thursdays in October [...]

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Metropolis

Alex Bryce 9/16/08 Blog Post #2 First, I just wanted to say that Metropolis was the first black-and-white silent movie I’ve ever seen! Because I watch TV and movies with subtitles/closed captions, I had no problem reading the dialogue and the plot summaries on the screen. However, it was slightly disorientating not to be able [...]

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A Thought on Skin Shows

Kate Coley I finally have found some time to blog! I know we have been discussing Frankenstein like craaazzzyy, and most of this stuff has been said already, but I really just wanted to get some ideas out there. Here goes… I really wanted to talk about something that was brought up in “Skin Shows” that [...]

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“Horror Movies and ‘Torture Porn’”

I just found a really interesting blog post (after following a link from a blog post by another blogger I follow semi-regularly).  You can find it at http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2008/09/horror-movies-a.html The author, Elizabeth Black, comments that “There is something cathartic about a good horror movie. The suspense and terror are often accompanied by scenes of either blatant [...]

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