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LONDON - The Finder and The Moon: Real UFOs Caught on Film
LONDON - The Finder and The Moon: Real UFOs Caught on Film
9 June 2026 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Mark Pilkington, author of the UFO meta-conspiracy classic Mirage Men, presents a curated selection of his favourite filmic artefacts from the flying saucer era and beyond. Against the backdrop of the longest sustained wave of UFO coverage in the United States since the 1940s—culminating in a series of inconclusive congressional hearings—this lecture examines how moving [...]
ONLINE - Mansion of Gloom: the Unsettling Legacy of Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
ONLINE - Mansion of Gloom: the Unsettling Legacy of Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
18 May 2026 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” has unsettled readers since its first publication in 1839. A tale steeped in atmosphere, madness, and the terror of premature burial, it remains one of Poe’s most haunting and influential works. Few short stories have proven so endlessly adaptable, or so capable of absorbing the [...]
LONDON - Blood Work: The Craft and Culture of Gore Cinema
LONDON - Blood Work: The Craft and Culture of Gore Cinema
12 May 2026 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Gore has long been one of horror cinema’s most contested pleasures. Frequently dismissed as gratuitous spectacle, defended as the essence of “real” horror, and routinely denied artistic legitimacy, gore occupies an uneasy position within film culture. This lecture approaches gore not as excess, but as an aesthetic practice and a mode of artistic expression—one rooted [...]
ONLINE - Bug-Loving Freaks: The Entomologists of Horror Cinema
ONLINE - Bug-Loving Freaks: The Entomologists of Horror Cinema
20 April 2026 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm - Science has long been one of horror cinema’s most reliable sources of fear, yet one scientific discipline has largely escaped sustained critical attention: entomology. From the atomic age to the present, insects and those who study them have appeared intermittently across horror, science fiction, and eco-horror cinema, where swarms, mutations, and infestations offer potent metaphors [...]
LONDON - Be One of the Good Ones: His House and Colonial Capitalist Hauntings
LONDON - Be One of the Good Ones: His House and Colonial Capitalist Hauntings
14 April 2026 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm - His House (Weekes, 2020) is crowded with ghosts. Walls whisper, shadows move, and spectres stalk its refugee protagonists. Yet this lecture looks beyond the film’s overt apparitions to uncover the deeper, less visible hauntings embedded within its narrative: the lingering afterlives of colonialism, capitalism, and displacement. These are not ghosts that simply lurk in corridors, [...]
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