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It's LUCIO FULCI Friday for our last #HorrorLexTagFest pick! In this 2012 essay from #FilmInternational, Wheeler Winston Dixon thinks about "Surrealism and Sudden Death"--with or without flying maggots--in Fulci's "Living Dead" trilogy.
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Surrealism and Sudden Death in the Films of Lucio Fulci - FilmInt.nu
By Wheeler Winston Dixon. Dedicated to the memory of Rick Lopez. The films of Lucio Fulci, the Italian horror filmmaker, are usually lumped in with those of other ‘gore’ specialists, but it seems to m...
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May 8, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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We're taking a road trip for today's #HorrorLexTagFest: SOUTHERN GOTHIC. Read Jaleesa Rena Harris's thoughts from 2024 on subprime mortgages, Black horror, and Southern hauntings via LOVECRAFT COUNTRY and BELOVED. #Humanities @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
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On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Return of the Repressed: The Subprime Haunted House," in plain text. On the right, a still from the 1998 film BELOVED in which three Black women huddle together in front of their dilapidated house, looking back at something beyond the frame.
May 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Today's pick for #HorrorLexTagFest is a big one: BLAXPLOITATION. Read Paul Lehman and John Edgar Browning's chapter (from the 2009 book "Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms") on BLACULA's cultural significance in a post-Civil Rights era.
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On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Dracula and the Blacula (1972) Cultural Revolution" in plain text. On the right, an image of the titular vampire from BLACULA (1972) wearing a cape and some very '70s sideburns.
May 6, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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We're getting gross for today's #HorrorLexTagFest: NECROPHILIA! Thankfully Patricia MacCormack is here to class up the joint with her 2005 essay on sex, dead bodies, and psychoanalytic theory as exemplified in films like MACABRO and FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN.
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On the left, a screenshot of an article entitled "Necrosexuality" in plain text. On the right, a still from the film FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN in which Dr. Frankenstein (Udo Kier), in a white lab coat, fondles a bloody organ from the corpse stretched out on the slab in front of him. A look of ecstasy is on his face.
May 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Today's pick for #HorrorLexTagFest is: DISNEY. Read @lisawithans.bsky.social's 2019 rundown of the dark ladies of the Mouse House, including Maleficent, Ursula, and the Evil Queen, and her theory as to why they give off such queer signals.
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From the Evil Queen to Elsa: Camp Witches in Disney Films
Perhaps the most unforgettable moment in Frozen (2013, Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck) is the musical number “Let It Go”, in which protagonist Elsa fully unleashes the magical powers she has been…
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May 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Get in, loser, we're going to Tag Fest! Each day this week, we're highlighting one of the 600+ keywords that you can use to find great reads on Horror Lex, from Abel Ferrara to zombies. Each pick will come with an #openaccess article or book. #HorrorLexTagFest horrorlex.com/browse/categ...
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May 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM