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Halloween 2021- Pepper's Ghosts and the horror of existential anxiety

Halloween originates in the ancient Celtic celebration of Samhain. At the end of autumn, the recently deceased would begin their journey...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Oct 31, 20215 min read

Midnight Ghosts and Ending An Era

Imagine the smell of the place first. What does a collapsing room smell like? Imagine the smell of the rotting seats, the moulding...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Mar 12, 20216 min read

Boo! Why You Hate Jump Scares

Minor spoilers for Insidious and When A Stranger Calls... For my fifteenth birthday, my parents took me to see The Mousetrap at Sydney...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Aug 24, 20207 min read

Why are there so many bad horror movies?

While I was researching my undergrad thesis, my supervisor suggested that I watch Halloween and Get Out. While I certainly find horror...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Aug 11, 20206 min read

Candyman- how white women survive in horror films

Even if you don’t watch a lot of horror, you probably know the stereotypes surrounding the portrayal of women. You know about the...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Jun 29, 20206 min read

Guilt becomes Horror- a closer look at Get Out

I think a lot of people have been forced to reckon with a very ugly truth this week. There are no excuses for not engaging in the BLM...

Film

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Jun 15, 20208 min read

Nasty and Restricted- how horror benefits from scarcity

In 2014 at the Gamescom trade fair in Cologne, Germany, PlayStation announced a mysterious new game. It was a playable teaser created by...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Jun 1, 20208 min read

Disgusting Dramaturgy

Content Warning- this article contains discussions and images of staged vomit and mutilation. When I was a very small child, my...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

May 11, 20208 min read

The Paratheatrical- an introduction

One of my favourite parts of working in theatre is the routine that is involved in going to see a play. There are so many steps involved...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

May 3, 20208 min read

Video Games and Unpredictable Horror

These are difficult times. Many people are turning to the media they love to get through it. For those of us in the theatre community,...

Horror

Grace Davidson-Lynch

Apr 1, 20207 min read