MISKATONIC LDN-REMAKESPLOITATION: THE HORROR MEME

For those horror academics or the ones who want to dig deeper. This Meetup will meet at Lobby entrance 20min before

ABOUT THE LECTURE
Lead by instructor 'Iain Robert Smith' this lecture will introduce you to the world of horror ‘Remakesploitation’ and the international exploitation remakes of successful horror films that were often unlicensed and aimed primarily at the domestic market.

Some examples include the 1974 " Şeytan", a near shot-for-shot remake of "The Exorcist" directed by Turkish filmmaker 'Metin Erksan' in which the Catholic iconography was replaced with equivalents from Islam. This was part of a global trend for producing unlicensed re-workings of William Friedkin’s film including the blaxploitation film Abby (1974), the Italian-American rip-off Beyond the Door (1974) and the re-release of Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil with additional scenes under the title The House of Exorcism (1974).

Surveying a range of examples of horror remakesploitation from around the world, this lecture uses Richard Dawkins’ concept of the ‘meme’ to explore what these films can tell us about processes of cultural globalisation. Meme is a cultural equivalent of the biological gene that spreads and mutates in a manner analogous to evolution.

Illustrated with numerous clips and posters from this international phenomenon, this lecture will investigate these processes of cross-pollination to explore how the horror genre adapts and mutates as it travels around the globe.

ABOUT IAIN ROBERT SMITH
Iain Robert Smith is a Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. He has published extensively on cult and horror cinema, with a particular emphasis on international remakes. He is author of The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema and co-editor of the collections Transnational Film Remakes. He is also the co-founder of the Remakesploitation Film Club and he is currently working on a book about global cult cinema.

ABOUT THE MISKATONIC INSTITUTE:
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies is an international organization that offers university-level history, theory and production-based masterclasses for people of all ages, founded by film writer and programmer Kier-La Janisse in March 2010, with regular branches in London, New York and Los Angeles as well as presenting special events worldwide.

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