by Jess Peacock | Sep 7, 2018 | Hallowed Horrors
Bad Things: 10 Years of “True Blood” BY JESS PEACOCK I was sold on True Blood – the incredibly popular and highly influential television series that premiered on HBO eight years ago today – when I first saw the visually rich opening title...
by Jess Peacock | Aug 21, 2018 | Hallowed Horrors
Top of the Food Chain: “Blade” Turns 20 BY JESS PEACOCK Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of director Stephen Norrington’s film Blade, written by the ubiquitous (at one time, anyway) comic-to-screen oracle David Goyer, and starring Wesley...
by Jess Peacock | Jul 11, 2018 | Hallowed Horrors
It Came From the Academy: An Ethnography of Horror Fandom BY JESS PEACOCK It should not come as a surprise to anyone reading this that fandom has a toxicity problem. From Star Wars actresses Kelly Marie Tran and Daisy Ridley being harassed off of Instagram, to...
by Jess Peacock | May 27, 2018 | Hallowed Horrors
God’s Madmen: 121 Years of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” BY JESS PEACOCK This weekend marks the 121st anniversary of the publication of Bram Stoker’s seminal novel Dracula. Stoker’s epistolary horror classic was neither the first (Varney the Vampire, published...
by Jess Peacock | Apr 18, 2018 | Hallowed Horrors
“They Prepare for Sacrifice”: The Ritual and the Christian Blood God BY JESS PEACOCK It has been a few months since David Bruckner’s adaptation of the creeptastic Adam Neville novel The Ritual clawed its way onto Netflix to generally positive reviews. The story is a...
