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Like founder Helga Hufflepuff, the members of Hogwarts’ Hufflepuff house, including Cedric Diggory and Professor Sprout, are known for their loyalty and honesty. Now you can capture the magic of Hufflepuff house like never before and collect a stunning array of artifacts inspired by the Harry Potter films. Inside, fans will learn about all things Hufflepuff, relive moments from the films, and delve into the behind-the-scenes magic that brought Harry Potter to life on the big screen.

This text analyzes Blue Velvet as the definitive expression of the traumatized innocence which characterizes David Lynch's work. It teases out the nature of Lynch's cinematic intelligence, and suggests that Blue Velvet vividly captured the ambience of subconscious human wildlife.

This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease. As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media, the book provides a novel definition of the epidemic film genre and offers a systematic look into the narrative and stylistic conventions that characterise it. Epidemic Cinema traces the evolution of the genre from its early cinematic origins to establish the foundi...

Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams. Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was based on the infamous skin-wearing murderer Ed Gein? Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest Horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killers who inspired...

2024 MPCA/ACA Best Edited Collection, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA) How work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film. American ideals position work as a source of pride, opportunity, and meaning. Yet the ravages of labor are constant grist for horror films. Going back decades to the mad scientists of classic cinema, the menial motel job that prepares Norman Bates for his crimes in Psycho, and the unemployed slaughterhouse workers of Th...

The Horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has always had a truly international reach, and nowhere is this more apparent than on television as explored in this provocative new collection looking at series from across the globe, and considering how Horror manifests in different cultural and broadcast/streaming contexts. Bringing together established scholars and ne...

Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past. Contemporary film and television – and popular screen cultures more generally – are distinguished by their many and varied engagements with history, including participation in worldwide movements to reconcile past losses and...

As featured in Fangoria, Movieweb, ComingSoon, Queerty, Rue Morgue, Yahoo News, Bloody Disgusting, and more! In 1983, Robert Hiltzik’s Sleepaway Camp was quickly disregarded by film reviewers. Variety called it a “tired version of teen oriented horror film formulas," The Philadelphia Enquirer "had more thrills untangling paper clips," and The Cincinnati Post branded it "more horrible than horrifying." But fans saw something different. Very different. 40 years since its release, the film’s uniq...

George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is a cult classic that has resonated with audiences and independent filmmakers ever since its release in 1968. It redefined horror cinema and launched the modern zombie genre that continues with films and series like 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead and The Walking Dead.Ben Hervey’s illuminating study of the movie traces Night’s influences, from Powell and Pressburger to fifties horror comics, and provides the first history of its reception. Hervey arg...

COLOUR - OR DO NOT. THERE IS NO TRY.Feel the force and colour your way through a galaxy of iconic artwork from Star Wars. From Ewoks on Endor to starships and stormtroopers, this colouring collection features comic covers, cartoon panels, detailed character art, intricate patterns and much more.Fans of all ages will enjoy reliving key moments from all Star Wars films, with illustrations from Star Wars: A New Hope through to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.Add colour to iconic scenes such as the...

A smart, funny crash course in 25 iconic horror movies, from Psycho to Hereditary, for people who love getting the reference but hate being scared. You don't have to miss out just because you don't like to be frightened! Stop trying to read nonsensical Wikipedia plot summaries (we know you’re doing it), and let an expert tell you everything you need to know about the most influential horror films of the past 60 years—without a single jump scare or a drop of gore. With a rundown of the history...

Organize your schedules in 2025 with the infamous ghost with the most in this Beetlejuice™–themed weekly planner. WEEK AND MONTH VIEWS: Each monthly divider features a unique Beetlejuice™–inspired design. The dated weekly planner pages are paired with a notes page to provide you with ample space to jot down notes or reminders that come up throughout the week. STICKERS AND STORAGE: With two pages of functional and decorative planner stickers and a storage pocket in the back, this planner come...

From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest genre films with gay directors such as F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and James Whale (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein), LGBTQIA characters have rarely been portrayed in full view. For decades, filmmakers have included "coded" content in their films with the homosexual experience translated into censor-friendly subtext for consumption by general audiences. Gradually, LGBTQIA characte...

Robin Wood’s writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume. Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cinema—has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood’s interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a form of popular cinema to which he devoted unwavering attention. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his groundbreaking critiques. In September 1979...

This collection focuses on 1970s films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various ‘difficult’ subjects, have proved to be controversial in one way or another. It is not an uncritical celebration of the shocking and the subversive but an attempt to understand why this decade produced films which many found shocking, and what it was that made them shocking to certain audiences. To this end it includes not only films that shocked the conventiona...

Show your love of Universal Monsters horror film classics, and take your stationery, art supplies, makeup, earbuds, and chargers on the go with this stunning accessory pouch inspired by the Bride of Frankenstein. GLOWS IN THE DARK: This accessory pouch is made with a vegan-leather exterior, a cotton blend lined interior, and a durable zipper with a pull tab.  It features a stunning design of the Bride of Frankenstein that glows in the dark. CONVENIENT SIZE: This 8.75 x 5.875–inch pouch is a...

Vampires have walked among us for thousands of years. These reanimated corpses survive by draining and consuming the blood of the living, and their threat to humanity cannot be ignored. Throughout the centuries, professors and peasants have offered their own vampire-fighting tips, but these were often old wives' tales, based more on superstition than on fact. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive vampire-fighting guide for the twenty-first century. In the tradition of bestsellers like T...

The Gory Guide to the Walking Dead While most people know what zombies look like, do they actually know how they act? What they do during their spare time? What their work ethic is? Probably not. Enter The Ultimate Book of Zombie Warfare and Survival. From bestselling zombie author Scott Kenemore, learn all the tricks to the living dead trade. Whether you’re fighting the zombies or are a zombie yourself, this collection is all that you need to survive on your own. Included in this book are ex...

For anyone who loves all zombie, The Walking Dead, or expects the zombie apocalypse, comes a parody of the children’s classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar A very hungry zombie eats his way through a variety of his favorite foods, including clowns, astronauts, rock stars, fingers, and brains. With vivid, playful art and amusing text, The Very Hungry Zombie will appeal to picture-book lovers of all ages. Adults will catch its slightly demented humor. Older kids who grew up on classic board books...