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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tomorrow morning, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at @meccsa.bsky.social 2026, hosted by the University of Leicester. Here, we’ll be introducing our feature-length documentary, SCUM OF THE EARTH: CREATING AMERICA’S RURAL COMMUNITIES OF HORROR, which premieres internationally at 11:25am

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🚨 Don’t forget: abstracts due Friday 21 August. Read the CfP below!

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨 V2 of our CfP for Cine-Excess 2026 is now LIVE. We’re delighted to share the title of Professor Aviva Briefel’s keynote, “Return to Cabrini Green: Candyman (1992/2021) and the Spatialization of Horror Legends,” details of which can be found via the link below!

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"He" might have come home, but "She" was there to meet him. @danieljsheppard.bsky.social looks back at our first Final Girls of the classic slasher era, including Laurie from HALLOWEEN, and the nuances of her feminist credentials. #openaccess from Q Rev Film & Video doi.org/10.1080/1050...

On the left, a screenshot of the article "Slashing the Sisterhood? Women's Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher" in plain text.

On the right, an image from the 1978 film HALLOWEEN showing the three young female protagonists walking together on a suburban sidewalk.

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

DELIGHTED to announce that my latest article, “Slashing the Sisterhood? Women’s Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher,” has just been published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video. It’s available to read open access here:

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Slashing the Sisterhood? Women’s Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher

Published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2026)

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. To access the full CfP, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social ‬ @wick85c.bsky.social www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...

The cover of the book "Games of Terror Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle," featuring a color-distorted image from the film HALLOWEEN in which Michael Myers attempts to strangle Laurie.

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10/06/2025

SHE'S HERE! Predating Carol J Clover's Men Women and Chain Saws by 2 years, this out of print gem has too long been denied its rightful place in the history of horror studies. This reprint is a miracle, thanks in large part to the amazing @danieljsheppard.bsky.social www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...

Cover of book GAMES OF TERROR: HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY 13TH AND FILMS OF THE STALKER CYCLE by Vera Dika, from Uni of Wales Press's Horror Studies series

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP

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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

It's that time again, and we're calling for FRESH BLOOD! #NightTideMag is looking for new contributors for our deep-diving horror mag. If this mission resonates with you, click that link to join our contributor pool! 👻📽️🩸✍️ forms.gle/rY1vageMxmFe...

Black background with teal heart bleeding red blood, overlayed with white text that reads: NightTide is a woman of color-founded and led magazine dedicated to celebrating the full spectrum of horror. We amplify the voices of Creators of Color, the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent experiences, and those challenging ageism in the genre. Our mission is to transform horror by exploring its most diverse, daring, academic, and overlooked perspectives.

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭

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dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Oh yeah I guess I should plug the exhibition shouldn't I. IF YOU ARE IN BIRMINGHAM PLEASE COME TO THE THING I AM DOING it will make all the stress seem worth it, thanks! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...

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Fear in the Bedroom

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Screening Sex @screeningsex.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We are deeply saddened by the news of the loss of Linda Williams. Linda's support and generosity made the Screening Sex initiative what it is today. In recognition of Linda and her work we are inviting all to share thoughts and reflections on her enduring influence. screeningsex.com/2025/03/14/l...

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Linda Williams

In light of the sad news of Linda Williams’s passing, we want to acknowledge how hugely influential Linda and her work have been for Screening Sex. Simply, there would be no Screening Sex wit…

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Which slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪

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Screening Sex @screeningsex.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We’re excited to announce our seminar series for 2025! First up in March: IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research. 👉 Details/register: screeningsex.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

DELIGHTED to launch the sixth edition of the Cine-Excess journal, Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, featuring an all-new essay by Barbara Creed as well as contributions from the cast of the much adorned Hellraiser franchise: Doug Bradley, Nicolas Vince & Barbie Wilde 👻📚

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Cine-Excess | Issue 6: Raising Hell - Cine-Excess

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

📰 Last Sunday, Xavier Mendik and I were featured in the Metro, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whether or not you read it, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep:

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The chilling real life story that inspired Nightmare on Elm Street

The plot for Wes Craven’s iconic film was inspired by a terrifying phenomenon.

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [20/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [19/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [18/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [17/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [16/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [15/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [14/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [13/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [12/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [11/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [10/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [09/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [08/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [07/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [06/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [05/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [04/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [03/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [02/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [01/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

DELIGHTED to announce that Vera Dika, Wickham Clayton & I have been working on a second edition of Dika’s O.P. book, GAMES OF TERROR: HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH AND THE FILMS OF THE STALKER CYCLE, soon to be published by the University of Wales Press 🤓📚🎉 Pre-order (HB) for May 2025:

uwp.co.uk

Games of Terror | UWP

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2024 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, BLOOD TIES: THE FAMILY IN CULT AND HORROR CINEMA, marks 50 years of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Cast & crew of the OG film join us w/ keynote speaker, Prof. Tony Williams. Further details to be announced including special guests.

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Call For Papers - Cine-Excess

Cine-Excess brings together leading scholars with global cult filmmakers and industry figures for an annual event that combines a themed academic conference with director interviews and UK theatrical ...

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