I am continuing to work on my chapter on King’s Maine on film, which is divided between film adaptations of King’s work that were filmed in Maine, like Pet Sematary (1989) and Graveyard Shift (1990), and adaptations in which the setting is designed and filmed in such as way that it becomes immersive, taking on the role of a character in its own right, like Derry in Andy Muschietti’s two IT films (2017 and 2019) and the eponymous King town in the Hulu series Castle Rock (2018-2019).

As I have been thinking about intersections of place (whether geographic or imaginative), space, and horror, I found myself looking back to a panel hosted by the Horror Studies Special Interest Group of the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) in April, which I forgot to share here. This panel gathered together several authors who have contributed to the Devil’s Advocates series of film criticism on individual horror films, which is published by Liverpool University Press. My book on Muschietti’s films is part of this series and I am honored to have it included along the work of several leading scholars in the field. The authors featured in this panel all focused at least part of their close reading of the films the selected for their books on the significance of place and space, and this panel allowed us to come together to discuss our work and this shared theme.

You can find a link to the excellent panel here. Enjoy!