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Seeing isn’t Believing: Historical, Fantastical Eye-Conography
Pan's Labyrinth and Del Toro's Auteur style Questions of authorship are quite simple for narrative literature. In the written and...
Nathan Lunn
Oct 31, 202315 min read


Jason VorHees / Shees
Friday the 13th , The Slasher Genre and the Interstitial Gender Space Heavy breathing. Laughter floats in the air. The twigs snap under...
Nathan Lunn
Oct 13, 202315 min read


Never Forget the Lesson, We Torture
Saw and Justifying "Extreme Interrogation" Post 9/11
Nathan Lunn
Sep 11, 20231 min read


Coherence, Cannibals and Chainsaws
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and 1970s Incoherence in Horror On the whole, American history throughout the 1970s is now recognised as ‘a...
Nathan Lunn
Aug 5, 20236 min read


Combating Consumerism
Fight Club and Marxist Film Theory Co-written with Emily Blackburn The capitalist mode of production can be defined, in the most...
Nathan Lunn
Aug 4, 202314 min read


Found-Footage and True Cinematic Verisimilitude
The Blair Witch Project and the difficulty between ideal cinematic presentation and the illusion of reality Often viewed as one of the...
Nathan Lunn
Jun 26, 202312 min read


They're Not Even from Round Here!
Hot Fuzz and and the transnational deployment of American aesthetics against British settings to create comedy Contemporary British...
Nathan Lunn
May 30, 20238 min read


Everywhere has a Wood
Charting the Traditions and History of British Folklore on screen First, let us ask a question. What is folk-horror? What qualities...
Nathan Lunn
May 2, 202324 min read
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