Gothic Horror Panel: The Ten Gothic Horror Movies You Must See – Bleeding Cool News

On August 4, Castle Bridge Media presented a panel on mid-century Gothic horror films featuring leading voices in horror fiction and commentary. The panel was made in celebration of the release of the book Nightwalkers, a new look at Gothic horror ranging from the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, home of Christopher Lee's Dracula and Peter Cushing's Frankenstein to Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe movies starring Vincent Price, to stand her own standalone works like The Innocents.

The panel featured:

The conversation began with exploring what exactly is the definition of Gothic. It turns out to be fairly difficult to pin down, though everyone agreed that Gothic horror films require "an air of secrecy," "self-consciousness," a "heightened operatic emotion," and "antiquity as a positive in its own right."

Among the titles that the group identified as the Gothic horror films that everyone should watch were:

Listen to the panel for the whole conversation.

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Jason Hendersonis the host of the Castle of Horror and Castle Talk Podcasts, the editor of theCastle of Horror Anthologyseries, and the author ofQuest for the Nautilus: Young Captain Nemofrom Macmillan Children's Books. His new horror novel, under the pseudonym Peyton Douglas,The Book Man, debuted this summer.

Jason Henderson, author of the Young Captain Nemo (Macmillan Children's) and Alex Van Helsing (HarperTeen) series, earned his BA from University of Dallas in 1993 and his JD from Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C., in 1996. His popular podcasts Castle Talk and Castle of Horror feature interviews and discussion panels made up of best-selling writers and artists from all genres. Henderson lives in Colorado with his wife and two daughters.

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