IF YOU WANT TO REALLY GET UNDER THE SKIN OF YOUR FAVOURITE HORROR FILMS BUT CAN’T STAND THE THOUGHT OF TRYING TO PENETRATE THICK ACADEMIC PROSE, THE SWEET SPOT MIGHT JUST BE DEVIL’S ADVOCATES, a new series of smart yet accessible book-length, single-film studies, released by Auteur Press. Current titles include considerations of such films as Let the Right One In, Saw and The Silence of the Lambs – with coverage of Nosferatu, Antichrist, Carrie and The Thing currently brewing. The series is the diabolical conception of editor John Atkinson, who hatched the idea in 2009.
“In my experience, horror fans are extremely cine-literate and also quite critical thinkers,” he says. “They are actively interested in the history of the genre and appreciate considered, intelligent analysis of it, rather than…