The spaces and places of horror

Vernon Press

[2020]

xxviii, 271 p.

Series in critical media studies

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781622737420

Part I: Spaces --This a a sacred place (lessness): The horrific untetherings of Martyrs (2008) / Katherine A. Troyer --Violent viscera and fetid wombs: Wicked architecture and the female body in Dario Argento's Mothers trilogy / Brenda S. Gardenour Walter --Surveillance, narrative and spectatorship in recent American horror films / Sandra Waters --Human trespass, inhuman space: Monstrous vegetality in Carter Smith's The ruins / Brittany Roberts --When orientalism raises hell: Puzzling through the postcolonial anxieties and usages of space in Clive Barker's Hellraiser / Matthew Sautman --Between hell and earth: Rhetorical appropriation of religious space within Hellraiser / Gavin F. Hurley --Part II: Places --the biblical horror in Gomorra / R. Shelton Bellew --Thalassophobia: Jaws (1975) and the nautical spaces of horror/ Mark Fryers --Zombies and the city / Henry Kamerling --National cinema, trauma, and melodrama in the Korean zombie film Train to Busan (2016) / Luisa Koo --They are still here: Possession and dispossion in the 21st century haunted house film / Mikal J. Gaines --The haunt found them: The layers of performativity, reality and illusion in The houses October built / Madelon Hoedt --The infinite inside: The bunker horror film / Michael Charlton --Unmasked horror in idyllic places: America as a "sunken place" / Rosemary Briseño --Strangers at the door: Space and characters in home invasion movies / Dario Marcucci.

This volume explores the complex horizon of landscapes in horror film culture to better understand the use that the genre makes of settings, locations, spaces, and places, be they physical, imagined, or altogether imaginary. In The Philosophy of Horror, Noël Carroll discusses the "geography" of horror as often situating the filmic genre in liminal spaces as a means to displace the narrative away from commonly accepted social structures: this use of space is meant to trigger the audience's innate fear of the unknown.

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