A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines
@mutualfascination.bsky.social
A Leverhulme Trust Research Project, based at the University of Glasgow, investigating the relationship between the ‘psy disciplines’ and horror fiction in British culture.
The Ice Tower, which tells of a young girl's obsession with Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, resonates with mid-century pscyhological approaches to horror. Hadžihalilovic's film draws out the seductive danger in Andersen's tales that led P.M. Pickard to deem them 'unsuitable for children'.
"as fragile and delicate as a snowflake, as disorientating and mysterious as adolescence, and as dark as a winter’s night": Lucile Hadzihalilovic's fantastical 'frio-noir' THE ICE TOWER (2025) is on BFIPlayer from today. Review for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/reviews/the-...
The Ice Tower review – a fairy tale frío-noir that will give you…
Lucile Hadžihalilović's mesmerising riff on the famous Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is a true triumph of imagination.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The Ice Tower, which tells of a young girl's obsession with Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, resonates with mid-century pscyhological approaches to horror. Hadžihalilovic's film draws out the seductive danger in Andersen's tales that led P.M. Pickard to deem them 'unsuitable for children'.
'And, if we become gripped by this type of fear, our minds
are opened wide to the psychological suggestion that we
too are at risk of invasion by similar powers of evil.'
- A pamphlet distributed by campaigners at screenings of The Exorcist (Ban this Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive)
are opened wide to the psychological suggestion that we
too are at risk of invasion by similar powers of evil.'
- A pamphlet distributed by campaigners at screenings of The Exorcist (Ban this Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive)
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
'And, if we become gripped by this type of fear, our minds
are opened wide to the psychological suggestion that we
too are at risk of invasion by similar powers of evil.'
- A pamphlet distributed by campaigners at screenings of The Exorcist (Ban this Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive)
are opened wide to the psychological suggestion that we
too are at risk of invasion by similar powers of evil.'
- A pamphlet distributed by campaigners at screenings of The Exorcist (Ban this Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive)
Great to spend some time with the Herbert Read archive at Leeds University Cultural Collections this morning. Very interesting to see how intertwined discourses on aesthetic education and psychology were in the post-war years.
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Great to spend some time with the Herbert Read archive at Leeds University Cultural Collections this morning. Very interesting to see how intertwined discourses on aesthetic education and psychology were in the post-war years.
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For my American horror homies this Thanksgiving: A great article to send a family member on why we love scary movies. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #anxiety
'The paradox of horror': How scary films can soothe your anxiety
Jump scares and gore might not seem like the most soothing watching, but scary films can actually be the ideal therapy during anxious times.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For my American horror homies this Thanksgiving: A great article to send a family member on why we love scary movies. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #anxiety
Great to see this article by @alasmorrison.bsky.social that explores the relationship between genre fiction and psychiatric care while making a case for interdisciplinary study.
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Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research
This article offers a critical assessment of representations of psychiatric hospitalisation in modern Western societies, with the goal of informing clinicians’ approach to communication and reassuranc...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Great to see this article by @alasmorrison.bsky.social that explores the relationship between genre fiction and psychiatric care while making a case for interdisciplinary study.
mh.bmj.com/content/earl...
mh.bmj.com/content/earl...
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London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film.
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Exploring film, folklore, and media, this lecture asks why female rage is pathologised while male violence remains disturbingly normalised.
miskatonicinstitute.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film.
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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