Honored!

Honored!

This week, my essay on the kitschy horror movie, The Tingler was shortlisted as a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award in the short non-fiction category, and I'm elated and humbled by the support of the HWA for my film criticism, and enormously pleased to appear alongside such smart and creative people across the final ballot. To be honored for my academic work on horror cinema means a lot to me. The Horror Writers Association is voting now, with the award to be given at StokerCon 2025 in Stamford. I'll be there! As noted in a previous blog post, my…
Screamin’ in the Rain

Screamin’ in the Rain

I am proud to report the publication of some of my film studies research at What Sleeps Beneath -- a fantastic horror film-focused journal that not only features some brilliant current film reviews and interesting thinkpieces on the genre, but also recently won the annual "Best Blog" award from Pittsburgh City Paper. Right on. My contribution is called "Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The Tingler" and in it I compare Castle's over-the-top screamer of horror to one of the most heart-moving movie musicals ever made, Gene Kelly's Singin in the Rain. What's that? What…