Eleanor’s Horrors
Eleanor JohnsonA series of essays about feminism and horror, literature and history, translation and transformation.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 192 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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28 Days Later (2002): the First Contemporary Zombie Film (was not technically a zombie film)
I’ll start by saying that this is one of my all-time favorite zombie films. It’s smart, gritty, and absolutely godawful terrifying. And, technically, it’s not a zombie film, at least, if we define zombie as an “embodied revenant who resurre...
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Nolan's Odyssey (2026): Horror-Epic for the Boys
It’s not an easy thing to do, adapting an epic story from Antiquity for the modern day cinema. There’s always a balance to be struck between faithfulness to the original and some kind of relatability (odious word, I know) to a contemporary...
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Something must have been in the water in 1960.
This was the release year for Hitchcock’s Psycho, which I’ve written about before on this Substack, a brilliant film that centers our sense of fear on how the male gaze systematically disempow...
Witches and their Christian Allies
I’ve been writing a lot lately about films, so this week it felt like the right time to turn back to some deep cultural history. We’re going to return now to the historical persecution of women as witches in early modern European history. I...
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I'm a professor of medieval culture, the history of horror, and feminism. I've published 5 books and have 2 more forthcoming. Scream with Me, about horror in the 1970s and 2020s, publishes this year. The other is top secret.
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