The Walking Dead
Posted on October 3, 2018

Masculinity and Race in AMC’s The Walking Dead

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AMC’s The Walking Dead is back Sunday October 7 for its 9th season. We’re going to run a series of posts about the series that are distilled versions of the arguments of chapters in our edited collection, The Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead, recently published by McFarland. This collection is not at all the last word –and we’d like to open up more conversations about all these things in the show, especially as the issues raised in the book–and the arguments that get made–change as The Walking Dead narrative continues. To that end, we’re inviting submissions to Horror Homeroom that enter into conversation with this series of posts taken from our book. How do these arguments play out in seasons 8 and 9? If we publish your submission, we’ll send you a free copy of the book.

The first post in the series is from Brooke Bennett . . . This is what she has to say: Read more

Posted on September 30, 2018

Creepy CliffsNotes: September Edition

Elizabeth Erwin

Happy Sunday, Horror fiends!

It’s hard to believe that today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark since we still feel like the same snot-nosed kids who snuck into the duplex movie theatre and then spent months wondering how we could get our dog to be as cool as Algonquin. So in honor of our much beloved doyenne of horror, we’re rolling out this month’s Creepy Cliff Notes.

You know that death by paperclip scene in Student Bodies? Yeah, that pretty much sums up our current workload. But have no fear because we are Victor Frankenstein levels of committed to scouring the web for horror-related goodies! Read more

Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Posted on September 29, 2018

Top 10 Episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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Obsessions always have a beginning.  If you rewind the clock 26 years, you would find hordes of kids crowding around the television at 9:30pm to catch Are You Afraid of the Dark? on Nickelodeon before being corralled and taken to bed.  The series became the subject of nightmares and terrors and created a new generation obsession with horror.  A combination of Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone, mixed with kid-friendly subject matter, Are You Afraid of the Dark? was always destined to be a hit.  The success of the series helped green light Goosebumps and one episode even inspired M. Night Shymalan’s The Sixth Sense (1999), but unfortunately, the show now sits in relative and completely unwarranted obscurity.

Needless to say, this Canadian-American classic has a special place in my heart and, in honor of its 26th anniversary, what follows is a list of my top ten episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?  Now, I don’t claim to be a master of 90’s television and the list is very subjective, but know that I have ordered the episodes by least-to-most frightening.  Moreover, every episode is a gem in its own way and a list of only ten episodes could never do justice to this amazing television horror.

So. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this article, The Top Ten Episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

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Predator
Posted on September 22, 2018

The Wasted Promise of The Predator

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The Predator should have been great. The cast is good, full of actors like Keegan-Michael Key and Alfie Allen who thrive even in small roles, and the behind the scenes talent is even better. Shane Black directs a script he co-wrote with Fred Dekker, both of whom worked on the incredibly fun ‘80s tween horror-comedy Monster Squad (1987). Shane Black shines when he takes a shaggy dog premise and injects some unexpected life in it, and that’s exactly what this movie—the fourth or sixth (depending on if you count the Alien Vs. Predator duo) film in a franchise that started in the late-80s—needed. The Predator ends up being kind of a tepid mess, however, especially in the third act. To misquote Monster Squad, The Predator needed some nards.

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