Are you interested in the depictions of traditional religious knowledge and experience in horror? Here in the UK, the University of Chester has a major new project and a survey for those who encounter religion in horror. Are the religious trappings just lazy go-to “aesthetic set-dressing”, on the part of cliche-ridden writers and producers? Or are deeper currents sometimes at work, either good (e.g. horror as a Biblical good-vs-evil spectacle) or bad (e.g. resembling a slyly re-worked anti-semitism)? After the survey the project researchers will…

move on to in-depth focus groups, allowing for a more detailed examination of these interactions, before finishing with some detailed interviews with participants.