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American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium

Steffen Hantke

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9781604734539

Published to University Press of Mississippi: March 2014

DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734539.001.0001

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A Return to the Graveyard

A Return to the Graveyard

Notes on the Spiritual Horror Film

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(p.142) A Return to the Graveyard
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American Horror Film
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James Kendrick

Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781604734539.003.0009

This chapter examines the spiritual horror film. Taking as its point of departure the phenomenal box office success of The Sixth Sense and the cycle of American ghost stories it initiated, it speculates about the resonance that these films, with their spectral theme, have for contemporary viewers, and how they are positioned within a larger cultural landscape that often favors more overtly violent forms of body horror.

Keywords:   American horror film, supernatural horror, Sixth Sense, ghost stories

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