Reappraising Cult Horror Films

Lee Broughtonis a Lecturer in Film and Media in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. He also teaches on the Arts and Humanities programme that is offered by the University’s Lifelong Learning Centre. Lee is the author of The Euro-Western: Reframing Gender, Race and the ‘Other’ in Film (Bloomsbury, 2016) and the editor of Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained (2016) and Reframing Cult Westerns: From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight (Bloomsbury, 2020).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Cult Horror Films and Cult Movies
Lee Broughton (University of Leeds, UK)

Part I: Lone Features
1. Carnival of Souls as Seen by its Creators
Bill Shaffer (Producer/Director, USA)
2. A ‘Totally Emancipated Female’: Julie Ege, Britain’s Crises of Masculinity and Roy Ward Baker’s The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Lee Broughton (University of Leeds, UK)
3. Wandering the Labyrinth of Space-time and Eternity in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
Kamil Koscielski (Independent Scholar, Poland)
4. The Candy-Coloured Uncanny: Childish Pleasures in Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Cynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA) and Tom Shaker (Independent Scholar, USA)
5. Death is the Price: Racial Segregation, Urban Gentrification and the Horrors of Candyman
Phevos Kallitsis (University of Portsmouth, UK)
6. Decide for Yourself: Cult, Controversy and Anti-Capitalism in The Hunt
Craig Ian Mann (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

Part II: Cult Horror Directors
7. ‘We Are Going to Do Something Nasty’: The Cult Films of Harry Ku¨mel
Mark Goodall (University of Bradford, UK)
8. (Re)positioning Ken Russell as a Cult Horror Auteur
Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK)

Part III: Cycles and Clusters
9. Deliverance Derivations: Counter Constructions of White Trash in 1970s Horror
Xavier Mendik (Birmingham City University, UK)
10. Hybrid Horror from Australia
Pete Falconer (University of Bristol, UK)
11. ‘I Can’t Believe So Many Horror Fans Aren’t Watching Inside’: The Cult Status of 21st-century French Horror Cinema
Alice Haylett Bryan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
12. Vertical Violence: Horror Cinema’s Terrible Towers
Kev Bickerdike (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
13. The Investigative Outsider and the Use of Nemein as a Narrative State Change Driver in Cult Horror Cinema
James Shelton (Independent Scholar, UK)

About the Editor and Contributors
Index