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A new academic year means a new schedule of Weekday Night Bite events and we are looking for your pitches for 2024-25! There is more information about the Weekday Night Bites series (and a video archive of past events to inspire you) on our website: baftsshorror.weebly.com/events.html

The deadline for inclusion in our next bulletin is 1st October - Please do send over any news you have (recent publications, CFPs, future events) within the realm of horror screen studies. More info: baftsshorror.weebly.com/bulletin-repos…

Final issue of Total Film on shelves today. We’re all extremely proud of it. Packed with exclusives and long-form writing of tremendous brio, blending passion and expertise. Worth mounting a rhino and charging to your nearest shop for*, I promise *Please don’t. Walk safely

Reasons to follow the BFI: - Film news 🚫 - Tickets for screenings and events 🚫 - Mark Kermode’s weirdly threatening BFI Player tweets ✅

Thanks so much to Richard🔥Wells for this awesome flyer & the logo for the series. Excited to work with Adam James Smith and Robert Edgar on this. Send us your ideas! #Spectres

Can’t wait to be back at the brilliant Dirt In The Gate Movies to introduce the 1990s return of Laurie Strode on 35mm this Halloween! It’s going to be a fantastic and spooky evening in the beautiful Regent Cinema, Christchurch with extra trailer treats from the DiTG team! 🎃👻 #HorrorNU

In case there was any reminder needed as to why our history/Black studies departments and academics across the university sector need defending/supporting more than ever.

WE'RE BACK! Our 1st event of the academic year on 27/11 features @murder_media81 Dr Bethan Jones (she/her) Shellie McMurdo Tom Watson explore the connections and overlaps between true crime media and the horror genre. Registration free & open to all forms.office.com/e/JuRS3GQNQe

Soooooo, I'm terrible / hate doing this but I have a book out next year, 'The Ecogothic Werewolf'. Probably not a stocking filler but I think a pretty good read - I was brutal in the edit. waterstones.com/book/the-ecogo…

What an incredible "this you".

On Sunday 17 Nov, I'm hosting a post-film Q&A with Alice Lowe following her new film “Timestalker”. Tickets via Midlands Arts Centre (MAC): macbirmingham.co.uk/cinema/timesta…

Reminder - registration is open for our true crime & horror event on 27/11

Last call to register for our horror and true crime event on Wednesday evening! Full details and free registration here: forms.office.com/e/JuRS3GQNQe

If you missed our event on Horror and True Crime last week, you can now see the full discussion on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/4LrKr2_4UcQ?si…

SAVE THE DATE - our first event of 2025 is on horror video games, and takes place 29/01. More info and registration open in the new year. Till then, wishing you all safe and spooky holidays! 🧟‍♂️🎅🧟‍♂️

Happy new year, fiends! Our first event of 2025 takes place online 29 Jan, and explores horror gaming, aesthetics, narratives and technologies. Registration is free and open to all: forms.office.com/e/EE1TddGrXt

My latest book, The Metamodern Slasher Film, is out in paperback next month Preorder from Edinburgh University Press: shorturl.at/Drc7I Use the code PAPER30 for 30% off My next book - The Postmodern Slasher Film - is also up for pre-order on the EUP site (out in July) #horrorNU

Last call for this week's event

CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th) at Northumbria University Call and submissions info here: shorturl.at/XmTjU #horrorNU

Our next online event takes place on Weds 26 Feb, feat. Rebecca McCallum Dr Lakkaya Palmer John Kavanagh Amy Beddows and Andrea Woodward. Registration is free and open to all forms.office.com/e/6vWph9N5em