Horror Comes Home: Essays on Hauntings, Possessions, and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema
Affiliation of Author, Researcher, or Creator
Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Department
Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Author(s)
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Resource Type
Book
Publication, Publisher or Distributor
McFarland Publishing
Publication Date
6-12-2019
Brief Description
Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out—until it isn’t. This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace, or supernatural battleground. The contributors explore the shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next. Well known films are covered—including Psycho, Get Out, Insidious: The Last Key and Winchester House—along with films produced outside the U.S. by directors such as Alejandro Amenábar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage), and often overlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger.
Keywords
Horror, cinema, home, house, dwelling
Preferred Citation Style
Chicago Manual