Horror Comes Home

Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe.Home is a refuge thatkeeps the monsters out-until it isn't.This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The Contributors explorethe shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next.Well known films are covered-includingPsycho,Get Out,Insidious: The Last KeyandWinchester House-along withfilms produced outside the U.S. by suchdirectors as Alejandro Amenábar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage),and oftenoverlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger.