Shellie McMurdo

PhD CandidateUniversity of Roehampton

United Kingdom

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The Problem with Post-Horror

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Shellie McMurdo University of Roehampton

March 04, 2019
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The Problem with Post-Horror post-horror horror genre Get Out Curator's Note In the trailer for Get Out (2017) there are jump scares, gleaming surgical instruments, unnatural movement, musical stings, and a roaring skeletal stag. This is a film, the ...

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The Problem of Post Horror
March 04, 2019 to March 08, 2019

Shellie McMurdo University of Roehampton

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Re: The Shining and the spectre of 'elevated horror'

First off, I LOVE this clip,

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Shellie McMurdo University of Roehampton

Saturday, March 9, 2019 — 6:17 pm
First off, I LOVE this clip, it is so gloriously 80's! I think The Shining is such an interesting case, and I'm so fascinated by how its horror credentials were celebrated rather than minimised, and how a distancing from the "low brow" ...
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Re: The Problem with Post-Horror

Temporality...

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Shellie McMurdo University of Roehampton

Thursday, March 7, 2019 — 10:53 am
I completely agree, Stella. You also brought up temporal distance as well which I think is a really interesting area to get into, given that we live in so much more of an accelerated age now, films used to have time to find their audience and become " ...
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Re: The Problem with Post-Horror

Absolutely!

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Shellie McMurdo University of Roehampton

Thursday, March 7, 2019 — 11:08 am
Completely agree, its always a full gone conclusion that horror is in a state of crisis. I've also noticed in a good deal of journalistic accounts of post-horror, there is a wider implication that "this film isn't just going to save the hor ...
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Re: The Problem with Post-Horror

Historical connections

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Shellie McMurdo University of Roehampton

Thursday, March 7, 2019 — 12:20 pm
I'm really interested to see if there are similar discussions around Us, I've already seen a few tweets about the film that mark it as "different" from Get Out, with it being flagged up that Us is more clearly part of the horror genr ...
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Re: Horror and quality: when the Gothic gets gruesome in The Haunting of Hill House.

Gothic = More legitimate?

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Shellie McMurdo University of Roehampton

Friday, March 8, 2019 — 10:30 am
There's so much television out there at the moment that treads this line between quality and horror and I had never thought of it in terms of the Gothic before, but it makes perfect sense. I would be interesting to examine whether or not the more a p ...