Blog Post 9 (due 5 PM Wednesday 2nd April)

Jonathan L. Crane explores horror and irony in his work ‘It was a dark and stormy night.’ What We Do in the Shadows (Taika Waititi… Read More »It was dark and stormy In the Shadows

As Carrol mentions in ‘Horror and Humor”, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one show that frequently danced between genres, with fantasy, action, romance and of… Read More »Horror and Humour Gone Wrong: Buffy Season 6

“And some extended ways of understanding the notion of incongruous juxtaposition include: simultaneously presenting things that stand at extreme opposite ends of a scale to… Read More »The Visit and Incongruity Theory

What separates splatter films from other horror subgenres are their postmodern underpinnings as they embody the violence associated with our changing world and minds, says… Read More »(The) Weeknd at Arnzen and Carroll’s

Crane describes the idea of the ‘postmodern horror film’, which ‘drifts back and forth between scares and laughs without warning’. These films may include serious,… Read More »What a pain in the neck

Jonathan L. Crane writes that “postmodern horror  […] drifts back and forth between scares and laughs without warning” (p148). This brought to mind the HBO… Read More »Apocalypse jokes like there’s no tomorrow

The three theories of horror comedy for this week seem to blend together many of the elements of previous weeks readings: incongruity and superiority, camp… Read More »okay flay

The SNL Skit “Haunted Elevator” is an example of a monster robbed of its fearsomeness as posed by Noël Carroll. The sketch involves a so-called… Read More »David S. Pumpkins: Clown-Monster