Household Horror

" Household Horror provides a lively and highly original contribution to horror studies. As a work on cinema, it introduces the reader to films that may be less well-known to casual fans and scholars; more conspicuously, it returns to horror staples, gleefully reanimating works that one might otherwise assume had been critically "done to death" ( Psycho, The Exorcist, The Shining ). The close readings of individual films provide sophisticated, nuanced and even startling insights."—Allan Cameron, University of Auckland

" Household Horror provides a lively and highly original contribution to horror studies. As a work on cinema, it introduces the reader to films that may be less well-known to casual fans and scholars; more conspicuously, it returns to horror staples, gleefully reanimating works that one might otherwise assume had been critically "done to death" ( Psycho, The Exorcist, The Shining ). The close readings of individual films provide sophisticated, nuanced and even startling insights."—Allan Cameron, University of Auckland

Marc Olivier is Professor of French Studies at Brigham Young University.