Visiting Lecturer in Film, @myBCU | Assoc. Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Assoc. Director, @Cine_Excess | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him
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18 Sep 2020
DELIGHTED to receive my contributor's copy of MONSTERS: A COMPANION. My first in print chapter & I'm SO happy with the outcome. If you're looking for a short yet comprehensive introduction to the QUEER MONSTER, especially given the recent cultural dialogue, look no further 🤓📚🎉
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🚨 CfP for @Cine_Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. Access: cine-excess.co.uk
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Dr Daniel Sheppard retweeted
Jan 12
My book on people's memories of watching videos they perhaps shouldn't have been watching in the 1980s, titled Unsuitable Film and Video Audiences, is finally almost here from @EdinburghUP Available to pre-order at edinburghuniversitypress.com…
Use code NEW30 for a 30% discount!
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25 Sep 2025
🚨 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 info & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-exces…
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13 Aug 2025
🗓️ Abstracts for @Cine_Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday
23 Jul 2025
🚨 Updated CfP for @Cine_Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks the anniversaries of RE-ANIMATOR (1985) & SHIVERS (1975). Brian Yuzna, prod. of RE-ANIMATOR, is scheduled to join us in person & Lynn Lowry, star of SHIVERS, joins us online. INFO ➡️ bit.ly/CECFP
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23 Jul 2025
🚨 Updated CfP for @Cine_Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks the anniversaries of RE-ANIMATOR (1985) & SHIVERS (1975). Brian Yuzna, prod. of RE-ANIMATOR, is scheduled to join us in person & Lynn Lowry, star of SHIVERS, joins us online. INFO ➡️ bit.ly/CECFP
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17 Jun 2025
This afternoon, @XMendik 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 🤓🎉
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16 Jun 2025
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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31 May 2025
DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @UniWalesPress. 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 Wickham Clayton 👻📚🎉
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15 May 2025
🚨 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 joins us w/ keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guests TBA: bit.ly/CECFP
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Dr Daniel Sheppard retweeted
19 Apr 2025
I've basically given up on Twitter but I'm back to let you know that my article on THE WOMEN (1939) and the Production Code has been made free access, meaning you can now read it without a journal subscription. Link below.
4 Jan 2025
Delighted to have written about THE WOMEN (1939) for Quarterly Review of Film and Video's special issue about the Production Code.
Big kudos to our editor Dr. Tom Brown for putting together a wonderful collection of scholarship.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Dr Daniel Sheppard retweeted
4 Feb 2025
Last year, Barbie Wilde, Simon Bamford and I were guests at Cine-Excess film festival. The journal, titled RAISING HELL, contains academic papers on the themes of Demons, Darkness and the Abject. FREE to read or watch at the link below.
30 Jan 2025
Issue 6 of the Cine-Excess journal is now available online for free! Containing a range of papers, and for the first time supplementary filmed interviews, you can read Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject at bit.ly/cine-excess-issue-6
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30 Jan 2025
🚨 DELIGHTED to launch the latest edition of Cine-Excess journal, Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness & the Abject, feat. Barbara Creed’s all-new essay & contributions from the cast of the Hellraiser franchise: Doug Bradley, Nicolas Vince & Barbie Wilde 👻 URL: bit.ly/cine-excess-issue-6
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Dr Daniel Sheppard retweeted
31 Dec 2024
Thanks for making this 1st year of NightTide Mag so incredible. We're small but mighty & we're only going to grow! Diverse horror journalism is our lifeblood, varied perspectives are our mainstay, it truly makes us the heartbeat of horror. HAPPY NEW YEAR, FIENDS!! 🥳
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31 Dec 2024
🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, Dr. Wickham Clayton astutely described the selection as “brilliant & telling.” This year, w/ changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death & the gay are more evenly distributed.”
31 Dec 2023
📽️🎞️ Most Watched Films: Top 15
Starting an NYE tradition of posting my most watched films (since 2019) and, to quote @wick85c, this first entry “is brilliant. And telling.” I will not be taking any questions but, for the record, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is CINEMA. ✨
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29 Dec 2024
📰 Last Sunday, @XMendik and I were featured in @MetroUK, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whether or not you read it, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep: metro.co.uk/2024/12/22/chill…
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21 Nov 2024
Given Twitter’s mass exodus to the Good Place, your reminder that you can find me where the skies are blue 🤗✨
30 Apr 2024
I’ve finally joined Bluesky Social. If you’re over there, I’m eager to connect: danieljsheppard.bsky.social
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Finally thanks to the editorial team at QRFV and the anonymous peer reviewers who have made this process engaging and thought provoking!
@DanielJSheppard & team, thank you!
The first 50 free eprints of the article can be accessed here: tandfonline.com/eprint/ZXAKI…
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15 Nov 2024
Today is the highlight of my teaching career. 🤪
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Dr Daniel Sheppard retweeted
14 Nov 2024
This #UPWeek, we're showcasing the latest books in our ground-breaking series 📚
Follow the link for the latest research in Horror studies: uwp.co.uk/series/category/ho….
ALT Cover of 'Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle' by Vera Dika.
ALT Cover of 'Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror' by Sam Tabet
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Dr Daniel Sheppard retweeted
4 Nov 2024
The latest QRFV is overflowing w/genre goodies: desktop horror, vehicular love in TITANE & CRASH, psychoanalysis of Cronenberg, the romance of KING KONG '05. #JuliaChan #KatarzynaPaszkiewicz #KobeKeymeulen #GlenMimura @wick85c @DanielJSheppard @tandfonline
tandfonline.com/toc/gqrf20/4…
ALT On the left, the cover of the latest issue of "QRFV" (Quarterly Review of Film and Video) with a simple geometric layout in plum and cream colors.
ALT On the right, a still from the 2005 version of KING KONG showing the ape's face close up as he scrutinizes a blonde woman in a white gown standing before him.
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