A guest post by Amy Hall. A cult classic horror film debated since its release in 1980, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has become a landmark in the psychological thriller genre. Based on the book by Stephen King, the movie is set during an especially cold winter in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Aspiring writer Jack … Continue reading Winter Film Reviews: “The Shining” (1980)
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An American Gothic Nightmare: Stephen King’s The Mist
This is a guest post by Yaroslav Marichev. The United States is full to the brim with political, social, and thus literary potential for writers of the Gothic mode, and particularly as a Puritan experiment which has, over the course of several centuries, laid a foundation to a genre which literature experts denote as the American Gothic.
Doppelgangers – Volume 01: The Shining
Hello Gothic People!It is a new term of the gleefully grotesque and the magnificently macabre, Gothic Reading Group and the theme this year is ‘Adaptation’. To celebrate, I intend to start a new series where I talk a little bit about the background to the original, the adaptation and discuss some of the differences between … Continue reading Doppelgangers – Volume 01: The Shining
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