Horror International - Stojanova

From Horror International, read Christina Stojanova's "Beyond Dracula and Ceausesca: phenomenology of horror in Romanian cinema".
Notes:
page 221: Eastern Europe as shadow or "other" of west.
Page 227: audio/visual leitmotif (dark stairways, sounds of elevators...).

Horror International - Mathijs

Read from "Horror International" ed. Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2005.

"Man Bites Dog and the Critical Reception of Belgian Horror (in) Cinema" by Ernest Mathijs
Notes: tradition of magic realism citing Franz Roh in 1925 which adhered to surrealism.
Films to find: "Daughters of Darkness" and "The Devil's Nightmare".
Page 329: Suggests that documentary realism and stretched time turns into magic realism.