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From George Melies’ The Haunted Castle (1896), Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein (1910), F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), and Rouben Mamoulien’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931), horror cinema found its roots, its visual style, and its voice in the Gothic. Since then, horror and the gothic have remained closely intertwined, creating a major strand of horror that continues to haunt our screens. In this illustrated talk, Prof. Stacey Abbott will locate the origins of gothic cinema in the spectral qualities of film itself. She will examine how the genre’s style has evolved and expanded over time to include strange off-shoots, diverging monsters, stories, and themes, and glorious forays into the dark and disturbing.
