Slashers: is there a story left to be told? Freddy haunted our dreams, Jason paved his way with a machete and hills had eyes. Despite the essence of those stories they seem to repeat themselves and are trivial in their simplicity: a creep hunts, tortures and kills dozens of innocent...

Menstrual horror - puberty revenge movies. „Sleep around and you’ll get what you deserve”. With this quote, in a subsection of his book, the American philosopher Noël Carroll interprets a warning well known for the slasher audience. Each cinema period, together with a generation of film-lovers, showed not only the...

Skate horror, skateboard and its fascination with terror. When the skateboard came out of the water (its beginning originated with surfers arriving to the beach on wooden fish skateboards) was bloody and full of horror. After all, first attempts to complete a trick hard to master usually ended up with...

Vampire theatre. PRL TV horror Polish cinematography has a reputation of being short on horror movies. During this lecture I will try to tackle this false conviction, which originates from the fact that during the list creation of Polish horror movies, usually only feature films are taken into consideration. Meanwhile...

The XXX files: about porn parody There’s no blockbuster, famous novel or popular TV series that wouldn’t have its parody. Nearly every known cultural texts has its lustful, mirror comedic image. No other film makers react so quickly to a success of some sort of product as the producers and...

Blood, sex, guts and TROMA. Lecture about the most rebellious B grade movie makers in the world. TROMA is a low-budget American film studio that for over 40 years stuns, skeeves, attacks the society, mocks all that is holy and has a lot of fun while doing it. Troma has...

Discussion panel: Why the world should love Troma, despite fear of it? Troma became famous due to the production and distribution of remarkably cheap and poorly made B Class movies. However, under this layer of homemade fake blood and not so much authentic guts, hides a massive amount of merits,...