Ebert famously hated this movie when it was released. My piece isn't really about criticizing Ebert, but I do address his position and use it as a way to challenge how we write about acting and collaboration in movies made by male geniuses.

FYI all at @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social and adjacent!

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Are you brave enough to face the Wasteland! Join us with the formidable Ken Hollings as we suit up, and face the nuclear fallout Tickets & Details miskatonicinstitute.com/events/termi...

We're back at the Horse Hospital on the 10th for some furious wasteland battles. The bombs have dropped, and now the fight for survival begins with the wonderful Ken Hollings. See you on the 10th.

I had an entire slide on this in my @miskatonicihs.bsky.social talk, and I regret NOTHING.

This is what I've been doing with my time recently. Can't remember when I last enjoyed helping to compile a festival retrospective programme so much. These films are subversive, outrageous, WTF & bonkers, a full complement of extraordinary horror & sci-fi classics that deserve to be rediscovered.

An excellent talk by horror expert @aurelea.bsky.social about the 'New Black Gothic Romance.' Also, special thanks to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social and wonderful host @joshsaco.bsky.social #blackgothic #blackhorror #gothicstudies #afrogothic #newblackgothic

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

TONIGHT I'm excited to welcome Lea Anderson for here New Black Gothic Romance lecture - caught up with her last night and boy howdy! are we in for a treat!!! miskatonicinstitute.com/events/new-b... Last call for Semester passes!

ONE WEEK to go. Submissions close 20 February for stories and articles in our next zine. Got something strange, scary, or splendidly unsettling hiding in your drafts folder? Send it our way: tinyurl.com/zinemay26 Illustrators, we need you too

A badge of honour from @miskatonicihs.bsky.social #horrorstudies #gothicstudies

MONDAY we hit the airwaves with Lea Anderson, and her presentation on Neo Block Gothic Romance Tickets & Details here: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/new-b...

It was most excellent.

An excellent talk by Dr Nedeem Hassan, titled Heavy Metal Horror Film in 1980s' USA: Moral Panic and Folk Devil Reactions. Organised by @miskatonicihs.bsky.social and hosted by @joshsaco.bsky.social #heavymetalmusic #heavymetalhorror #heavymetalhorrormovies #moralpanic #folkdevil

Our Online Semester Passes are still available! But only until Monday... Get them while you can! billetto.co.uk/e/online-spr...

FANGORIA has officially landed in the UK, with Vol. 2, Issue 30 now available at select stores across the country. Find out where to get your hands on a copy right here.

TONIGHT! It's HEAVY METAL HORROR!!!! Join us at the Horse Hospital at 7pm Tickets & Details: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/heavy...

Our Online Semester kicks off next Monday the 16th - with a dive into Black Neo Gothic Romance Semester Pass here billetto.co.uk/e/online-spr...

LONDON!!! We kick off our new semester with Heavy Metal Horror Movies on Tuesday - Grab a Semester Pass while you can- billetto.co.uk/e/spring-202... Smart money saving move - 5 lectures for the price of 4

Special Issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 'Video Games & Horror’ Abstract deadline: 1 April 2026 Full article draft deadline: 28 July 2026 www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-g...

CFP: Monster Media Conference University of Edinburgh 18-19 June 2026 (abstracts due 15 March 2026) call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...

Happy New Year! Presenting our 2026 design! 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️ Why have just one Ghoulia when you can have two?

LONDON Grab your semester passes asap! We kick off on Tuesday with Heavy Metal Horror Cinema 🤘 Semester Pass here: billetto.co.uk/e/spring-202...

Anyone who was at my “Shoegaze Horror” talk @miskatonicihs.bsky.social would’ve heard me bang on about Exit 8 - alongside PT, the Backrooms, and other looping liminal horror environments. It even has flickering lights! Well now it’s coming to cinemas, and it’s a firm recommendation from me. 🥰

Looking forward to this, got my semester pass ready!

Lovely write up on our new semester from the wonderful folks at @fangoria.bsky.social www.fangoria.com/miskatonic-h...

Ever wanted to take a class all about horror? Check out the Miskatonic Institute for Horror Studies' spring lineup of lectures and masterclasses.

Our London Spring Semester featuring @jamesrendell.bsky.social @markopilkington.bsky.social, Nedim Hassan, Ken Hollings, and Shellie McMurdo Details on all their exciting talks are here: miskatonicinstitute.com Along with tickets and the all important SEMESTER PASS!!

A fantastic obituary by Cathi Unsworth, for the legend Roger Burton, who left us just over a week ago. Without Roger and the Horse Hospital there may never have been a Strange Attractor... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Check out our upcoming Online Spring Semester with @willowcatelyn.bsky.social , Lea Anderson, Edwin Harris and Antony Clayton Details on the talks are here: miskatonicinstitute.com As are single tickets and Semester passes - DO IT!

Our new podcast FOLKLORE MATTERS launches today! Have at it! #folklore

Online pass purchased and hopefully I'll make it to at least one London talk. I can highly recommend everything @miskatonicihs.bsky.social puts on... 🖤

I'm mega excited to announce our Spring 2026 Semester, and a shiny new website! miskatonicinstitute.com Check out our insanely cool new season, and grab your passes!

Had to leave before the end of the Q&A but this was a simply superb talk by @harbottlestores.bsky.social on the representations of asylums in horror film. Some very sobering material here with lack of progress and political will. Thanks to Jen and @miskatonicihs.bsky.social.

Enjoyed the last @miskatonicihs.bsky.social of this term, hosted by the wonderful @joshsaco.bsky.social and listening to the brilliant @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about The Asylum and its Patients on Film.

Gonna be a cracking way to end the semester and enter crazy season with @harbottlestores.bsky.social at the Horse Hospital TONIGHT Tickets: billetto.co.uk/e/and-where-...

The second, by Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social, is on 9 December at the Horse Hospital in #London with @miskatonicihs.bsky.social, and is an extension of her chapter on asylum #horror published in Julian Upton's Offbeat. miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...

📣 Coming up next Tuesday! 🗓️ Dec 9, 2025 🕒 2–4 PM EST Join team member Dr. @juliaecheverria.bsky.social's online lecture on epidemic cinema at @miskatonicihs.bsky.social to explore the emergence of the “epidemic film” as a distinct genre🦠🎬 🎟️ Details & tickets: shorturl.at/ZFk5L

Jennifer is brilliant and always engaging and informative. If you are in London and can check this out, you won't be sorry.

Double whammy on Tuesday, as we close out the year with a look at the Rise of Epidemic Cinema. Join @donnerpartyofone.bsky.social as she bids us farewell. Tickets: billetto.co.uk/e/do-not-tou... Remember, if you can't make it, we will happily send you a catch up link.

Super excited to welcome @harbottlestores.bsky.social to the Miskapodium on Tuesday, for this dreamy presentation. Tix: billetto.co.uk/e/and-where-... @letterboxd.social lists have been updated! Busy weekend ahead! See you at the Horse Hospital!

Dear @miskatonicihs.bsky.social students (and visiting #MutantFam folks!): Nov. 18 is a very special episode of our online series, with Erica Shultz and her book The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills In Film - a title that speaks for itself! miskatonicinstitute.com/events/erasi...

London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film. #histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...

Update on my WYRD TV: Folklore, Folk Horror and British Television book PLUS exciting news about a CFP for a new edited collection on Folk Horror on Television from me and @drdjohnston.bsky.social !

Well this was predictably excellent. Many thanks to @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @miskatonicihs.bsky.social.

Loved Tonight's talk by @bronteschiltz.bsky.social discussing Televisual Gothic: Medication, Manipulation and Exploitation in British Broadcasting. Special thanks to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social and @joshsaco.bsky.social for organising and hosting this event.