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Horror-Comedy from Oxford Bibliographies Online by
Call Number: Electronic resourceHorror-comedy is a generic hybrid that deliberately provokes an emotional shift from terror, suspense, or dread to hilarity. In comedy-horror—its relative—a playful tone predominates, but it is undercut by horrific or startling events or effects. ...
Horror Film Festivals
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Atlanta Horror Film FestivalThey showcase feature and short horror films.
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The Big List of Horror Film FestivalsThis is the author's attempt to make a complete and current list of all the horror film festivals in the world.
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Chicago Horror Film FestivalWhat began as a simple one-day festival to showcase Short, Independent Horror films has now become a festival for both feature and short horror films and is known for seeing many of it’s featured films picked up for distribution.
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Eerie Horror Film Festival and Expo (PA)Since its debut in October of 2004, the Eerie Horror Film Festival has become one of the most popular and respected events of its kind in the country. Each year the Eerie Horror Film Festival attracts thousands of fans, filmmakers and screenwriters to the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, for a four day celebration of independent cinema, featuring special celebrity guests, screenings and workshops.
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Indie Horror Film FestivalThey showcase the best in independent horror, gore and blood!
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New York City Horror Film FestivalEach year the NYCHFF celebrates both the horror classics we grew up with and the new horror films & filmmakers who created them. the NYCHFF fills the city with special screenings, parties, celebrity guests and free giveaways.
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Sacramento Horror Film FestivalThe Sacramento Horror Film Festival was created in 2007 with many purposes. The festival founder desired the festival to be a platform for the horror filmmaker
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Screamfest LAScreamfest was formed in August 2001 by film producers Rachel Belofsky and Ross Martin in order to give filmmakers and writers in the horror/sci-fi genres a venue to have their work showcased to people in the industry.
Internet resource(s)
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British Horror FilmsThis site is dedicated to British horror films.
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Fangoria"The first in Fright since 1979!"
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Horror Films from Filmsite.orgFrom Filmsite.org, this page gives a very short primer on horror films.
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Kino InternationalA source for horror and hard to find films.
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Up Coming Horror MoviesTrailers, ads and other stuff about new horror movies coming to the screen.
A quick definition for horror films
A large and heterogeneous group of films that, via the representation of disturbing and dark subject matter, seek to elicit responses of fear, terror, disgust, shock, suspense, and, of course, horror from their viewers. Horror is a protean genre, spawning numerous subgenres and hybrid variants: gothic horror, supernatural horror, monster movies, psychological horror, splatter films, slasher films, body horror, comedy horror, and postmodern horror.
Kuhn, A. and Westwell, G. (2012). "horror film." In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 Dec. 2015
Getting started
To find horror films in the Library's collections, you can click on the subject headings below:
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horror filmsCall number range PN 1995.9 .H6 on Baker Level 4.
Introductory reading(s)
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The A-Z of horror films by
Call Number: Baker Berry PN 1995.9 .H6 M3245 1997ISBN: 0253211077This necrology lists of everyone who worked in the silent film era whether they were in front of the camera or behind the scenes. Each entry includes a short bibliography of their obituaries. -
American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929 by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1995.9 .H6 S6195 2012ISBN: 9780786435814During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the ""boy meets girl, boy loses girl"" theme, there were also quite a few motion pictures that dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. -
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Historical dictionary of horror cinema by
Call Number: Baker Berry PN 1995.9 .H6 H836 2008ISBN: 0810855852Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from subtle and poetic to graphic and gory, but what links them together is their ability to frighten, disturb, shock, provoke, delight, irritate, and amuse audiences. Horror's capacity to take the form of our evolving fears and anxieties has ensured not only its notoriety but also its long-term survival and international popularity. This second edition has been comprehensively updated to capture all that is important and exciting about the horror genre as it exists today. -
A History of Horror by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1995.9 .H6 D59 2010ISBN: 0813547962Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, ...
Selected book titles
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The Canadian horror film : terror of the soul by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1995.9 .H6 C264 2015ISBN: 9781442628502 -
Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1992.8 .H67 O38 2007ISBN: 1893121135Although the motion picture industry initially disparaged and feared television, by the late 1950s, studios saw the medium as a convenient dumping ground for thousands of films that had long been gathering dust in their vaults. -
Deformed and destructive beings : the purpose of horror films by
Call Number: Baker Berry PN 1995.9 .H6 O25 2011ISBN: 0786463074Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Previous answers to that question have included everything from a need to experience fear to a hunger for psychotherapy. This critical text proposes that the horror film's primary purpose is to present monsters, best understood as deformed and destructive beings. These monsters satisfy the audience's desire to know these beings, in particular those beings too fantastic and dangerous to know in real life. -
The great monster magazines : a critical study of the black and white publications of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s by
Call Number: Baker Berry PN 1995.9 .M6 C66 2008ISBN: 0786433892This work provides an overview of monster magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. The term "monster magazine" for the purposes of this study is used to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters which are illustrated in comic book style but printed in black and white. -
Horror After 9/11 by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780292726628Horror films have exploded in popularity since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, many of them breaking box-office records and generating broad public discourse. These films have attracted A-list talent and earned award nods, while at the same time becoming darker, more disturbing, and increasingly apocalyptic. Why has horror suddenly become more popular, and what does this say about us? -
Horror film festivals and awards by
Call Number: Baker Berry PN 1995.9 .H6 S535 2012ISBN: 0786465727The rise of independent horror film-making has spurred a growth of "indie" horror film festivals. This book will help horror filmmakers take fuller advantage of festival opportunities, and assist festival directors in founding and improving events. Included are listings of over 200 film festivals and awards and of previous award winners, spanning six continents and several decades. -
Horror noir : where cinema's dark sisters meet by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1995.9 .F54 M44 2011ISBN: 0786445971This critical survey examines the historical and thematic relationships between two of the cinema's most popular genres: horror and film noir. The influence of 1930s- and 1940s-era horror films on the development of noir is detailed, with analyses of more than 100 motion pictures in which noir criminality and mystery meld with supernatural and psychological horror. Included are the films based on popular horror/mystery radio shows (The Whistler, Inner Sanctum), the works of RKO producer Val Lewton, and Alfred Hitchcock's psychological ghost stories.
Finding articles & journals
Articles and other writings about horror movies can be found in many publications. We don't have journals that look exclusively at horror films. However, you can use Film & Television Literature Index to find relevant articles.
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Film & television literature index by
Call Number: Electronic resourceUse this index to find articles about horror films.
A Selected list of horror films
Find more horror !
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301/302 by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #2862ISBN: 1417200472The mysterious disappearance of one of two young women who live across the hall from each other provokes a police investigation that sets in motion a chain of flashbacks that illustrate the women's comically conflicted relationship. One is a compulsive cook and the other an anorexic. -
Ansiktet = The magician by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #10753A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan. -
The bad seed by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #14462ISBN: 0790792109A mother makes the tortuous discovery that her cherubic eight year old daughter harbors an innate desire to kill. -
The Bela Lugosi collection by Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5624ISBN: 1417058757This collection includes: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), The black cat (1934), The raven (1935), The Invisible ray (1936), and Black Friday (1940), all on one disc! -
The birds by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #246ISBN: 0783240236A small California town is attacked by thousands of birds. -
The bride of Frankenstein by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #925ISBN: 078323502XBaron Frankenstein is blackmailed by Dr. Praetorious into reviving his monster and building a mate for it. -
Burnt offerings by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7929ISBN: 9780792857396Finding it hard to believe they rented a sprawling country mansion for $900, a family soon finds themselves surrounded by an evil, hypnotic, occult force that feeds on torture, fear and murder. -
Carrie by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #553ISBN: 0792839676Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the whole school. What she doesn't realise is that Carrie is-- gifted, and you really don't want to get her angry. -
Cat people ; The Curse of the cat people
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #5416ISBN: 9780780650800Cat People : Irene Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irene believes that she suffers from an ancient curse-whenever emotionally aroused, she will turn into a panther and kill. The Curse of the Cat People : Amy is a very imaginative child who has trouble differentiating fantasy from reality, and has no friends her own age as a result. She makes an imaginary friend though, her father's dead first wife Irena. -
Creature from the black lagoon by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8755ISBN: 0783240953In the upper reaches of the Amazon River, a scientific team discovers an amphibious creature, a living missing link. The creature is captured and falls in love with the female assistant of the leader of the research team. The lonely creature kidnaps her, and the scientist mounts an effort to reclaim his sweetheart and return the creature to his watery home. -
Darkman by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8568ISBN: 0783226012A scientist is horribly disfigured when gangsters break in and destroy his laboratory. After being burned beyond recognition and altered by an experimental medical procedure, he is reborn as Darkman and seeks revenge on the criminals who were responsible. -
Dorian Gray by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #13235ISBN: 9781417212743Upon arriving in London the young and powerful Dorian Gray becomes drawn into a would of debauchery and decadence by Lord Henry Wotton. Desperate to preserve the beauty captured in his portrait, Dorian trades his soul for eternal youth, leading him down a path of wickedness and murder in order to protect his horrifying secret. -
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6187ISBN: 9780790785882A doctor experiments in order to turn himself into a fiend. This disc has both the 1931 (March) and 1941 (Tracy) versions.
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