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  • Amelia Ward
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Dir. Chris Columbus. Warner Bros. 2002.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Dir. Chris Columbus. Warner Bros. 2002. 150 150 Amelia Ward

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets utilizes horror film narratives and their depiction of monstrous animals in order to reveal a deeper complex message regarding human-animal relationships. The franchise’s reliance…

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  • Valery Tokarev
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Black Swan. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2010.
Black Swan. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2010. 150 150 Valery Tokarev

The movie Black Swan could be assigned to a psychological horror movie that was directed by Aronofsky and released in 2010. The film deals with the main protagonist Nina who…

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  • Valery Tokarev
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Black Swan. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2010.
Black Swan. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2010. 150 150 Valery Tokarev

Black Swan – Dir. Darren Aronofsky – 2010: When you watch certain movies over and over again, they are most probably good. When you have the urge to rewatch a…

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  • Harry Goodman
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White Dog. Dir. Samuel Fuller. Paramount Pictures. 1982.
White Dog. Dir. Samuel Fuller. Paramount Pictures. 1982. 150 150 Harry Goodman

Sam Fuller’s final Hollywood film, White Dog (1982), is based on Romain Gary’s 1970 ‘nonfiction’ novel of the same name and tells the story of aspiring actress Julie Sawyer (Kristy…

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  • Charlotte Russell
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The Witch. Dir. Robert Eggers. A24. 2015.
The Witch. Dir. Robert Eggers. A24. 2015. 150 150 Charlotte Russell

Robert Eggers’s 2015 independent horror film The Witch encounters human-animal relations in reference to a manmade issue – religion and the occult. I argue that such a representation of humans living alongside…

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  • Harriet Fielding
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Jurassic World. Dir. Colin Trevorrow. Universal Pictures. 2015.
Jurassic World. Dir. Colin Trevorrow. Universal Pictures. 2015. 150 150 Harriet Fielding

Welcome to Jurassic World – the planet’s most amazing theme park! Take a vehicle tour through Gallimimus Valley and run with the fabulous flocks, or roll around in the gyroscope…

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  • Hannah Lumb
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The Revenant . Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu. 20th Century Fox . 2015.
The Revenant . Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu. 20th Century Fox . 2015. 150 150 Hannah Lumb

While much of The Revenant’s plot focuses on the quarrels of men and the seeking of revenge, the bear attack scene makes us forget this for a moment. González Iñárritu instead creates…

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  • Helen Greenough
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Hannibal. Dir. Ridley Scott. MGM. 2001.
Hannibal. Dir. Ridley Scott. MGM. 2001. 150 150 Helen Greenough

Hannibal the Animal: An Analysis of Animal Presence in Hannibal Fig. 1. Hannibal Lecter. All pictures are taken directly from film unless otherwise stated. The sequel to The Silence of the Lambs,…

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  • Sophie Collingwood
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The Grey. Dir. Joe Carnahan. Inferno. 2012.
The Grey. Dir. Joe Carnahan. Inferno. 2012. 150 150 Sophie Collingwood

‘You are going to die. That is what’s happening.’ After spending five monotonous weeks working as a hired wolf exterminator ‘doing some of that sniper shit’[i] at an oil refinery in…

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  • Caragh Hargreaves
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The Birds. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures. 1963.
The Birds. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures. 1963. 150 150 Caragh Hargreaves

The Birds (1963) is undoubtedly a horror film because it contains a deep sense of the uncanny, a term Freud coins as something that is terrifying because it is familiar.[i] The Birds contains…

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