INTERVIEW: HORROR MOVIES AT THE BOX OFFICE
Dr. Scahill was quoted recently in a piece about the long-range box office success of recent horror films like Get Out, A Quiet Place, It, and the recent Jordan Peele project Us. As Sarah Shevenlock notes, 2017 was the first year that the horror genre made over $1 billion collectively. Weekend box office returns for Us show a record-breaking $70 million opening, doubling Peele's previous film Get Out, and ranking as the third-largest ever opening for an R-rated film. Contribu
FRANKEN-CINEMA ROUNDTABLE IN SEATTLE
At this year's SCMS conference, Dr. Scahill joined a panel of scholars on the near-bicentennial of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to celebrate the many film adaptations of her groundbreaking work. In "Frankenstein Across Time, Genres, and Culture," Prof. Khan presented on the rhetoric of "agri-horror" documentaries like Food, Inc which employ the Frankensteinian as means of framing the debate over GMOs. Scholar Subha Das Mollick discussed the unique features of Bengali science f
