HORROR FILMS IN UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF BIOPOWER by S. A. Malenko, A. G. Nekita

Subjects: “…horror film…”
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Existential and Phenomenological Horror in Les Diaboliques by Daniel Tilsley

“…The article will link this portrayal of horror to Les Diaboliques’ well-established influence on the development of the dominant 1960s and 1970s paranoid-psychological horror film and key figures like Alfred Hitchcock and William Castle, suggesting the ontological source of horror in these films as existential phenomenological in nature as opposed to exclusively being the result of psychosexual and familial repression, as is commonly posited by critics.…”
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The Director–Composer Duo: Polanski & Komeda’s Deconstruction of Film Music Conventions in Horror Cinema. "Fearless Vampire Killers" (1967) and "Rosemary’s Baby" (1968) by Piotr Pomostowski

“…The most important question is the extent to which Krzysztof Komeda’s compositions adhere to or depart from the horror film music convention. A key issue in this context, and one that applies to both of the analyzed films, is the technique of leitmotifs which Polanski and Komeda developed already in their first short films. …”
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“Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural, unnatural unnatural” . . . but real? The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978) and the Exploitation of True Story Adaptations by Wickham Clayton

“…1970s horror film and exploitation staple, The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978), is here used as a case study in incoherent narrative strategy and ideology and explores the incoherencies of this relationship to adapting “true stories.” …”
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