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Horror Comes Home: Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema

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Horror Comes Home: Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema - Miller, Cynthia J (Editor), and Riper, A Bowdoin Van (Editor)
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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 - ...

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Horror Comes Home: Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema 2019, McFarland & Company, Jefferson

ISBN-13: 9781476679679

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