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In her elegant and trenchant study of John Carpenter's 1982 cult horror movie The Thing, in which an alien lifeform attacks an isolated scientific research station in the Antarctic, Anne Billson argues that the film brilliantly refines the conventions of classic horror and science fiction, combining them with humour, Lewis Carroll logic, strong characterisation and prescient insight. The idea of an alien species mutating and inhabiting humans ...

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From 1997 to 2003, Buffy the Vampire Slayer single-handedly reinvented the high-school genre, splicing it with action, comedy and the supernatural. Series by series, Anne Billson unravels the magic of Buffy, examining the antecedents, influences and the new twist on the age-old story of the struggle between Good and Evil.

Vampires have never been so popular, but some films stand out from the crowd. The Swedish film "Let The Right One In" is one of those films, combining the supernatural with social realism, set in a 1980s suburb.