Miskatonic: Terminal Desert: From Trinity Site to the Ends of the Earth (via Bronson Canyon)
Mar
10
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: Terminal Desert: From Trinity Site to the Ends of the Earth (via Bronson Canyon)

From Greed (1924) to post-apocalyptic cinema, the desert has served as one of horror’s most unforgiving landscapes. This lecture, This lecture, presented by Ken Hollings for Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, traces how the American desert became a site of monsters, mutations, and moral collapse, shaped by atomic testing, exploitation cinema, and low-budget genre filmmaking.

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GRAIN Presents: Ute Kanngiesser & Theo Guttenplan (duo), Theodora Laird, Conal Blake, Caius Williams (trio), Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier (duo)
Mar
11
7:00 pm19:00

GRAIN Presents: Ute Kanngiesser & Theo Guttenplan (duo), Theodora Laird, Conal Blake, Caius Williams (trio), Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier (duo)

GRAIN is an ongoing series of improvised and experimental music. With live performance from: Ute Kanngiesser & Theo Guttenplan (duo), Theodora Laird, Conal Blake, Caius Williams (trio), Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier (duo)

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Miskatonic: Be One of the Good Ones: His House and Colonial Capitalist Hauntings
Apr
14
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: Be One of the Good Ones: His House and Colonial Capitalist Hauntings

His House (2020) is a ghost story about displacement, precarity, and the inescapable afterlives of empire. This lecture situates the film within a global “horror cinema of precarity” that uses the genre to address marginalised experiences. Drawing on postcolonial Gothic and hauntological theory, it explores how Britain’s imperial and capitalist legacies haunt the film atmospherically rather than corporeally.

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Miskatonic: Blood Work: The Craft and Culture of Gore Cinema
May
12
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: Blood Work: The Craft and Culture of Gore Cinema

Often dismissed as gratuitous or artistically empty, gore remains one of horror cinema’s most contested pleasures. This lecture reframes gore as an aesthetic practice rooted in tactility, craft, and collaboration. Tracing the devaluation of gore films and their fandoms, it situates graphic violence within broader artistic traditions and examines practical effects as a form of resistance to digital smoothness.

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Miskatonic: The Finder and The Moon: Real UFOs Caught on Film
Jun
9
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: The Finder and The Moon: Real UFOs Caught on Film

Mark Pilkington, author of the UFO meta-conspiracy classic Mirage Men, presents a curated selection of his favourite filmic artefacts from the flying saucer era and beyond. Against the backdrop of the longest sustained wave of UFO coverage in the United States since the 1940s—culminating in a series of inconclusive congressional hearings—this lecture examines how moving images shape belief, doubt, and wonder.

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Miskatonic: Heavy Metal Horror Film in 1980s’ USA: Moral Panic and Folk Devil Reactions
Feb
10
7:00 pm19:00

Miskatonic: Heavy Metal Horror Film in 1980s’ USA: Moral Panic and Folk Devil Reactions

This lecture, presented by Nedim Hassan for Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies examines how metal fans and musicians were cast as “folk devils” within the 1980s culture wars, and how a cycle of horror films—including Trick or Treat and Black Roses—absorbed and refracted these anxieties.

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"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film
Dec
9
7:00 pm19:00

"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film

Presented by Mikatonic, this talk explores how cinematic representations of the asylum and its patients have reflected real-life developments in psychiatry, including the demolition of Victorian institutions and moves toward community-based care in the late 20th century. We will also see how film itself played a role in these developments, with documentary exposés of asylum life like Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies (1967) revealing the real-life horrors of the institution.

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