The Art of Fear: Ghost Stories on October 19
The second part of The Art of Fear artist film exhibition is this Wednesday (October 19) in the upstairs lobby at Nitehawk Cinema! The event is free and starts at 7pm with films beginning shortly after...
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It’s pretty darn exciting that The Art of Fear has initiated the conversation about horror film and contemporary art by visualizing some of the connections between the two. Realizing that there are...
View ArticleGhost Stories – Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who came out for the second (but certainly not final) Art of Fear screening! To say that I was incredibly honored to show works by artists I admire so much would be an...
View ArticleNetwork Awesome Essay on “A Bucket of Blood”
Life is an obscure hobo bumming a ride on the omnibus of art – Maxwell H. Brock My first essay for Network Awesome Magazine went up this week. It’s a re-do on a little ditty about Roger Corman’s A...
View ArticleCurator gone mad: the 1966 film “It!”
While there are more “artists as villains” in horror films, there are a select few gems of “curators as killers” too (usually involving some sort of occult-practice and historical knowledge). My most...
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Per the enthusiastic recommendation by Fangoria‘s Sam Zimmerman, I recently purchased and immediately devoured House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and...
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In celebration of Edgar Allen Poe’s birth: FROM The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) I shall ever bear about me a memory of the many solemn hours I thus spent alone with the master of the House of...
View ArticleWays of seeing: the fearful role of art in Rod Serling’s NIGHT GALLERY
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View ArticleArt in Horror Film: The Secret of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray is the quintessential merger of visual art and horror. The classic British tale of a young man and his portrait painting that houses all of his evil doings...
View ArticleFamilial History (Sculpture, Film and Horror): a Q&A with Darren Banks
Darren Banks explores familial and technological histories through the integration of a filmic and sculptural language. Incorporating all the things we love here at The Girl Who Knew Too Much – cinema,...
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