We’re thrilled to discover that some folks who were at our SATANIC PANIC talk/book launch in October 2015 were inspired to create a play based on the events discussed in it – and the play debuts this March 1-5 as part of the Vault Festival! See the full details below: Hermetic Arts presents BADD (Bothered […]

Instructor Lindsay Hallam starts off our Spring 2017 semester on January 19th with her class “Nature Found Them Guilty”: Revenge in Australian Exploitation Cinema, and we’ve got a new trailer for the class that will give you a hint of the wonderful breadth of films to be covered in the discussion! Read the class description […]

Hope to see you all when classes begin again on January 19th, and in the meantime, have a great holiday season!

After successfully closing out the fall season with author Maura McHugh’s class investigating codes and signs in David Lynch’s TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (complete with complimentary doughnuts!), The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London returns to the Horse Hospital from January-May 2017 for another semester of film classes on a range of […]

Miskatonic classes can sometimes be a pretty secret affair, but thankfully Miskatonic NYC co-director Marc Walkow snapped some photos of our inaugural New York class featuring iconic horror author and “godfather of Splatterpunk” Jack Ketchum live in conversation for an epic three-hour masterclass. Check them out below!

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London returns to the Horse Hospital for another semester of film and pop culture classes, with a 2016 fall semester lineup led by some of the genre world’s most renowned critical luminaries. Mark Pilkington (Owner of Strange Attractor Press, writer/director of MIRAGE MEN) launches the season in September […]

Miskatonic London’s 2015/2016 school year has wrapped! We’ll be back in September, so stay tuned for the new curriculum to be posted here soon. In the meantime, see all our past courses in the archives HERE >>

Our friends over at US-based horror site Shock Till You Drop have talked to David Kerekes in advance of his class this Thursday. Here’s a tease: “If you look back to the ‘snuff’ film panic of the mid 1970s, the rumors followed a very specific model: ‘snuff’ films were said to be films that featured […]

In the 1990s, Wave Productions in New Jersey established itself as perhaps the leading distributor of shot-on-video horror movies. Its catalogue was expansive because of a very simple if ingenious marketing premise: Customers scripted and paid for their own movies. From the outset, customers wanted sexy girls in horrible situations. Yet, Wave had reservations about […]