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A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN HORROR AND RELATED AREAS
vol. 7, no.1, June 2024 | ISSN 2561-5629
Editor-in-chief: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editor: Lynn Kozak | Reviews Editor: Anne Golden
Editorial Assistants: Marcus Prasad, Nived Dharmaraj
Founding Editors: Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare & Kristopher Woofter
Editor-in-chief: Kristopher Woofter
Associate Editor: Lynn Kozak | Reviews Editor: Anne Golden
Editorial Assistants: Marcus Prasad, Nived Dharmaraj
Founding Editors: Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare & Kristopher Woofter
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OVERVIEW
Welcome to Monstrum 7, Issue 1, the unofficial "monster issue," with three feature essays and a feature interview all tackling monstrosity from a wide range of perspectives. Michael Carroll Clody investigates the spectral child as monstrous "artist" in the Sinister films. Noel Mellor looks at monster marketing, particularly the branding of franchise monster Freddy Kreuger across numerous films, products, and a 1980s television series. And SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize-winner Casey Walker looks at the "alien" monster and trenchant critique of isolationist migration policies at the Mexico-U.S. border in Gareth Edwards' 2010 film Monsters. Finally, in Gary M. Kramer's in-depth feature interview with Canadian director Bruce LaBruce, the controversial filmmaker discusses his radical hybrid horror-porn films Otto; or, Up with Dead People, L.A. Zombie, and his upcoming film The Visitor, an explicit reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema.
-- Kristopher Woofter
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Contributors: Holly Eva Allen, Bruce LaBruce, Michael Carroll Clody, Martyn Colebrook, Anne Golden, Gary M. Kramer, Noel Mellor, Casey Walker
Acknowledgments: Monstrum would like to thank our editorial board, as well as our collaborators, contributors and peer reviewers. Special thanks to Nived Dharmaraj, Clayton Dillard, Cain E. Miller, Marcus Prasad, Carl Sederholm, Alanna Thain, and the Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC). Cover Photo: K. Woofter Monstrum is published by the Montréal Monstrum Society (MMS). We are grateful for the generous support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture. | Monstrum est reconnaissant du généreux soutien du Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC).
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FEATURE ESSAYS & INTERVIEW
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SINISTER (Scott Derrickson, 2012)
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THE VISITOR director Bruce LaBruce (Courtesy A/POLITICAL 2023)
FEATURE INTERVIEW
Bruce LaBruce on His Explicit Radical Cinema of Seduction: Otto; or, Up with Dead People, L.A. Zombie, and The Visitor GARY M. KRAMER |
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FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE Merchandising Tie-in (Impel Marketing 1991)
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MONSTERS (Gareth Edwards, 2010)
“Que son los monstruos?”:
Borders, Bodies, and Infection in the Post-9/11 Sci-Fi/Horror Film Monsters CASEY WALKER SCMS Horror Studies SIG Graduate Student Essay Prize-Winner |
BOOK REVIEWS
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Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth
Edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund University of Minnesota Press, 2022 US$29.95 (pbk.) Reviewer:
HOLLY EVA ALLEN |
Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work
Edited by Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton University of Texas Press, 2023 US$55 (h/c) Reviewer:
MARTYN COLEBROOK |
POV Horror: The Trauma Aesthetic of the Found Footage Subgenre
by Duncan Hubber McFarland, 2023 US$65 (pbk.) Reviewer:
ANNE GOLDEN |
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