Tag Archives: horror

Forgotten Masterpieces #3: Black Christmas (1974)

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Dan Hassler-Forest

“I’m not so big on Christmas,” is what I usually tell people around this time of year. But perhaps it would be more accurate to communicate that I have a distaste for the obscene kitsch that accompanies the year’s biggest … Continue reading →

Posted in Film analysis, Forgotten Masterpieces | Tagged Black Christmas, Bob Clark, christmas, feminism, film, forgotten masterpieces, Halloween, horror, John Carpenter, misogyny | 1 Comment

Contagion in the 21st Century

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dan Hassler-Forest

Contagion is the dominant horror of the 21st century, an era marked by epidemics of terror, war, and economic crisis. Just as atomic anxiety infused Cold War-era pop culture, fear of contagion dominates recent pop culture in the form of … Continue reading →