Anna Bogutskaya: Feeding the Monster

Doors at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start

We're kicking off Halloween season with Anna Bogutskaya, noted film critic, curator and broadcaster, discussing the enduring allure of horror fiction and her new book Feeding The Monster!

Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of Hereditary, Get Out, The Haunting of Hill House, Yellowjackets and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what’s wrong with you? In Feeding the Monster, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger and power.

is a freelance critic, author, film programmer and creative producer. She writes for BBC Culture, The Guardian, MUBI, and Time Out, amongst others, and programmes films for BFI, Edinburgh Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. She produces and hosts podcast, created and produced the horror anthology podcast and has produced podcasts for Paramount, Studiocanal, BFI and Vertigo Releasing, as well as contributing to many others.

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