Collective Nightmares

Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss the horror film Saw (Wan 2004) from a sociological perspective for the podcast Collective Nightmares.

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Poltergeist (Hooper 1982) The fifth installment in our possession and haunting mini-series. One of the most iconic haunting films ever, with arguably the single most iconic scene in a haunting film: Tobe Hooper‘s Poltergeist. We emphasize that Poltergeist was more progressive and less sexist than the other films from these sub-genres we’ve watched that followed …

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Insidious Chapter 2 (Wan 2013) The fourth installment in our possession and haunting mini-series. We return to James Wan and the Insidious universe. Check out our episodes on The Conjuring and The Possession and Insidious! Marginally better ideologically The Conjuring and Insidious but still problematic. We talk the McDonaldization of horror and the joy or …

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Podcast hosts Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss the sociological aspects of the 2010 film Insidious by James Wan (2010). This is episode three of our mini-series on haunting and possession films.

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Podcast hosts Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss the sociological aspects of the 2013 film The Possession by Ole Bornedal (2013). This is episode two of our mini-series on haunting and possession films.

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Podcast hosts Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss the sociological aspects of the 2013 film The Conjuring by James Wan (2013). Intensely well crafted and scary, but ideologically intensely conservative.

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Podcast hosts Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss the sociological aspects of the 2019 film The Lodge by S. Fiala and V. Franz who also made Goodnight Mommy (2014).

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Podcast hosts Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss the sociological aspects of the extraordinary 2014 film Nightcrawler by Dan Gilroy.

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Podcast hosts Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss the sociological aspects of the 2020 horror film Antebellum (Bush and Renz 2020)

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Podcast hosts Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, discuss the sociological aspects of the 2020 horror film Always Shine (Takal 2016)

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