Dr Daniel Sheppard

🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html

The cover of the book "Games of Terror Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle," featuring a color-distorted image from the film HALLOWEEN in which Michael Myers attempts to strangle Laurie.

It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social ‬ @wick85c.bsky.social
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🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday

🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP

This afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉

Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤

Cover of book GAMES OF TERROR: HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY 13TH AND FILMS OF THE STALKER CYCLE by Vera Dika, from Uni of Wales Press's Horror Studies series

SHE'S HERE! Predating Carol J Clover's Men Women and Chain Saws by 2 years, this out of print gem has too long been denied its rightful place in the history of horror studies. This reprint is a miracle, thanks in large part to the amazing @danieljsheppard.bsky.social
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I had a sneaking suspicion when I read the report 🤪

DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP

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CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭

Oh yeah I guess I should plug the exhibition shouldn't I.

IF YOU ARE IN BIRMINGHAM PLEASE COME TO THE THING I AM DOING it will make all the stress seem worth it, thanks! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...

Linda Williams In light of the sad news of Linda Williams’s passing, we want to acknowledge how hugely influential Linda and her work have been for Screening Sex. Simply, there would be no Screening Sex wit…

We are deeply saddened by the news of the loss of Linda Williams. Linda's support and generosity made the Screening Sex initiative what it is today. In recognition of Linda and her work we are inviting all to share thoughts and reflections on her enduring influence. screeningsex.com/2025/03/14/l...

Which slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪

We’re excited to announce our seminar series for 2025!

First up in March:

IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY

Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research.

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DELIGHTED to launch the sixth edition of the Cine-Excess journal, Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, featuring an all-new essay by Barbara Creed as well as contributions from the cast of the much adorned Hellraiser franchise: Doug Bradley, Nicolas Vince & Barbie Wilde 👻📚

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The year of our Lord and Saviour

Sending warmth and happiness for the year ahead, David 💖

🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”

The chilling real life story that inspired Nightmare on Elm Street The plot for Wes Craven’s iconic film was inspired by a terrifying phenomenon.

📰 Last Sunday, Xavier Mendik and I were featured in the Metro, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whether or not you read it, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep:

But your emails are my favourite!

For what it’s worth, your chapter contains my favourite stills 🤪 HETEROS AND HUSTLERS certainly sells itself *ahem* but ON NOT HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE so perfectly captures the intellectual trajectory of your work on Reaganite Entertainment. (I always teach your chapter on Flashdance!)

My boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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