Dr Daniel Sheppard
@danieljsheppard.bsky.social
Visiting Lecturer in Film, Birmingham City University | Assoc. Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Assoc. Director, Cine-Excess | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him
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DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉
🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html
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It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social @wick85c.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
August 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social @wick85c.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday
🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP
August 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday
🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP
July 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP
This afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉
June 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉
Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤
June 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤
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SHE'S HERE! Predating Carol J Clover's Men Women and Chain Saws by 2 years, this out of print gem has too long been denied its rightful place in the history of horror studies. This reprint is a miracle, thanks in large part to the amazing @danieljsheppard.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
June 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
SHE'S HERE! Predating Carol J Clover's Men Women and Chain Saws by 2 years, this out of print gem has too long been denied its rightful place in the history of horror studies. This reprint is a miracle, thanks in large part to the amazing @danieljsheppard.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉
May 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉
🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP
May 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP
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It's that time again, and we're calling for FRESH BLOOD!
#NightTideMag is looking for new contributors for our deep-diving horror mag. If this mission resonates with you, click that link to join our contributor pool! 👻📽️🩸✍️
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#NightTideMag is looking for new contributors for our deep-diving horror mag. If this mission resonates with you, click that link to join our contributor pool! 👻📽️🩸✍️
forms.gle/rY1vageMxmFe...
May 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's that time again, and we're calling for FRESH BLOOD!
#NightTideMag is looking for new contributors for our deep-diving horror mag. If this mission resonates with you, click that link to join our contributor pool! 👻📽️🩸✍️
forms.gle/rY1vageMxmFe...
#NightTideMag is looking for new contributors for our deep-diving horror mag. If this mission resonates with you, click that link to join our contributor pool! 👻📽️🩸✍️
forms.gle/rY1vageMxmFe...
CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭
April 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭
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Oh yeah I guess I should plug the exhibition shouldn't I.
IF YOU ARE IN BIRMINGHAM PLEASE COME TO THE THING I AM DOING it will make all the stress seem worth it, thanks! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...
IF YOU ARE IN BIRMINGHAM PLEASE COME TO THE THING I AM DOING it will make all the stress seem worth it, thanks! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...
April 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Oh yeah I guess I should plug the exhibition shouldn't I.
IF YOU ARE IN BIRMINGHAM PLEASE COME TO THE THING I AM DOING it will make all the stress seem worth it, thanks! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...
IF YOU ARE IN BIRMINGHAM PLEASE COME TO THE THING I AM DOING it will make all the stress seem worth it, thanks! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...
Reposted by Dr Daniel Sheppard
We are deeply saddened by the news of the loss of Linda Williams. Linda's support and generosity made the Screening Sex initiative what it is today. In recognition of Linda and her work we are inviting all to share thoughts and reflections on her enduring influence. screeningsex.com/2025/03/14/l...
Linda Williams
In light of the sad news of Linda Williams’s passing, we want to acknowledge how hugely influential Linda and her work have been for Screening Sex. Simply, there would be no Screening Sex wit…
screeningsex.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We are deeply saddened by the news of the loss of Linda Williams. Linda's support and generosity made the Screening Sex initiative what it is today. In recognition of Linda and her work we are inviting all to share thoughts and reflections on her enduring influence. screeningsex.com/2025/03/14/l...
Which slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪
March 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Which slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪
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We’re excited to announce our seminar series for 2025!
First up in March:
IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY
Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research.
👉 Details/register:
screeningsex.com/2025/02/21/s...
First up in March:
IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY
Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research.
👉 Details/register:
screeningsex.com/2025/02/21/s...
February 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We’re excited to announce our seminar series for 2025!
First up in March:
IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY
Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research.
👉 Details/register:
screeningsex.com/2025/02/21/s...
First up in March:
IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY
Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research.
👉 Details/register:
screeningsex.com/2025/02/21/s...
DELIGHTED to launch the sixth edition of the Cine-Excess journal, Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, featuring an all-new essay by Barbara Creed as well as contributions from the cast of the much adorned Hellraiser franchise: Doug Bradley, Nicolas Vince & Barbie Wilde 👻📚
Cine-Excess | Issue 6: Raising Hell - Cine-Excess
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January 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
DELIGHTED to launch the sixth edition of the Cine-Excess journal, Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, featuring an all-new essay by Barbara Creed as well as contributions from the cast of the much adorned Hellraiser franchise: Doug Bradley, Nicolas Vince & Barbie Wilde 👻📚
🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”
December 31, 2024 at 2:40 PM
🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”
📰 Last Sunday, Xavier Mendik and I were featured in the Metro, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whether or not you read it, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep:
The chilling real life story that inspired Nightmare on Elm Street
The plot for Wes Craven’s iconic film was inspired by a terrifying phenomenon.
metro.co.uk
December 29, 2024 at 5:12 PM
📰 Last Sunday, Xavier Mendik and I were featured in the Metro, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whether or not you read it, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep:
My boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?
December 21, 2024 at 4:44 PM
My boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[20/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
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#BookChallenge 🤓📚
December 14, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[20/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[20/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[19/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[19/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
December 13, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[19/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[19/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[18/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[18/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
December 12, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[18/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[18/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[17/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[17/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
December 11, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[17/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[17/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[16/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[16/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
December 10, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[16/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[16/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[15/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[15/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
December 9, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
[15/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚
[15/20]
#BookChallenge 🤓📚