Overview
The Boston Globe plugs Cinescare's 2007 "Halloween" screening.
Horror cinema is the most revealing, vulnerable and significant storytelling human civilization has ever created. Its lineage starts in pre-Christian history, with "Beowulf," "The Epic of Gilgamesh," and the entire body of human mythology.
Modern day horror writers and directors mine the same unknown that has proved valuable to us since Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Mary Shelley, and Bram Stoker made it their own.
Other than movies of topical political and religious nature, only horror cinema continues to surprise us with the human thirst to experience truth in a communal setting. Only horror cinema provokes real-world action—be it objection or attraction—on the part of its audiences.
Cinescare ambitiously presents over 80 years of horror cinema as a text from which important lessons can be learned. Cinescare examines the narratives, characters and themes of genre film through a sociological lens.
By fusing issues of class, gender, religion, family and sexuality into a crucible, Cinescare recasts horror cinema as not only entertaining storytelling, but culturally important storytelling.
