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Jon Towlson is a film critic and the author of Candyman (Auteur, 2018), The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 (McFarland, 2016), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Auteur, 2016) and Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present (McFarland, 2014).
Articles by Jon Towlson
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Why Night of the Living Dead was a big-bang moment for horror movies
Horror films were never the same again after George A. Romero set hordes of zombies loose in farmland Pennsylvania, 50 years ago. But what was new about it?
Friday, October 26, 2018
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Two fistfuls of the finest Italian westerns, from Django to the Dollars trilogy and beyond.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
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50 years of Planet of the Apes: why the original series still holds a warning for us all
Beginning in 1968, an unusually bleak sci-fi franchise sounded a warning about the way our species was going. Fifty years later, can we be sure that Planet of the Apes was just monkey business?
Thursday, February 8, 2018
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Is Close Encounters of the Third Kind Spielberg’s most optimistic film?
Forty years later, Steven Spielberg’s utopian vision of first contact remains a beacon of light in an increasingly dark body of work.
Friday, May 20, 2016
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