Issue 1 - Horror

VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE - Horror Scenes from Non-Horror Movies

Alien Surgery
by Brian Agler

The dissection of a supposedly dead alien goes horribly wrong in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day (1996)
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Be Afraid of the Light
by Luke Burns

Kiss Me Deadly's (1955) Mike Hammer as monster in Robert Aldrich's bleak, cynical noir

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The Opening of the Ark
by James Folta 

The climactic opening of The Ark of the Covenant in Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
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Plumbing Problems
by Allen Irwin

A look at Harry Caul's investigation of Room 773 in Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974)

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The Haunted House in the Clouds
by Mark Paglia

An analysis of Irvin Kershner's The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as haunted house

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 "I Got a Live One Here!"
by Adam Sweeney

Jack Nicholson mixes horror with the comic in Tim Burton's Batman (1989)
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The Incinerator
by Mike Yarsky

Lee Unkrich's Toy Story 3 (2010) unintentionally reveals the most horrifying truth of all





ESSAYS

Consent & Horror
by Mike Yarsky

An examination of the implicit agreements between horror films and their viewers, and the abuses thereof.





REVIEWS

Everyday Horror
ParaNorman (2012)
by Allen Irwin


 
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Lionheart's Greatest Performance
Theater of Blood (1973)
by Adam Sweeney