Independent Scholar, UK | Associate Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Associate Director, Cine-Excess | Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/fzcH | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Himhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3mwxxhzflsc2x🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. For more, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk03 Oct 2026 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwxxhzflsc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3mumoq3cres22Tomorrow morning, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at @meccsa.bsky.social 2026, hosted by the University of Leicester. Here, we’ll be introducing our feature-length documentary, SCUM OF THE EARTH: CREATING AMERICA’S RURAL COMMUNITIES OF HORROR, which premieres internationally at 11:25am03 Sep 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumoq3cres22https://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3mt2j6mrrec2y🚨 Don’t forget: abstracts due Friday 21 August. Read the CfP below! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Aug 2026 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2j6mrrec2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3mrab5xudgc2z🚨 V2 of our CfP for Cine-Excess 2026 is now LIVE. We’re delighted to share the title of Professor Aviva Briefel’s keynote, “Return to Cabrini Green: Candyman (1992/2021) and the Spatialization of Horror Legends,” details of which can be found via the link below! [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2026 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrab5xudgc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3mplnrucmq227DELIGHTED to announce that my latest article, “Slashing the Sisterhood? Women’s Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher,” has just been published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video. It’s available to read open access here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2026.264771201 Jul 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplnrucmq227https://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3mmbwzd4q6k2h🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. To access the full CfP, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk20 May 2026 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmbwzd4q6k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lzo3pqgwfc2l🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html25 Sep 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzo3pqgwfc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lwbqqi55us22🗓️ Abstracts for Cine-Excess 2025, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, are due this Friday [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2025 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwbqqi55us22https://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lumvtrlqlc22🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP23 Jul 2025 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lumvtrlqlc22https://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lrsg6y5i2k2tThis afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉17 Jun 2025 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrsg6y5i2k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lrqb2h7hvk2iGorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤16 Jun 2025 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrqb2h7hvk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lqhp4jecps22DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉31 May 2025 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqhp4jecps22https://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lp7slrlhfc2s🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP15 May 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp7slrlhfc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lmksigufgs22CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭11 Apr 2025 19:57 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmksigufgs22https://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3ljkiydvsqc2rWhich slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪04 Mar 2025 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljkiydvsqc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lgxoay7plc2iDELIGHTED to launch the sixth edition of the Cine-Excess journal, Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, featuring an all-new essay by Barbara Creed as well as contributions from the cast of the much adorned Hellraiser franchise: Doug Bradley, Nicolas Vince & Barbie Wilde 👻📚 http://bit.ly/cine-excess-issue-630 Jan 2025 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgxoay7plc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lembp3eock2b🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”31 Dec 2024 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lembp3eock2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3lehjanoad22z📰 Last Sunday, Xavier Mendik and I were featured in the Metro, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Whether or not you read it, whatever you do, don’t fall asleep: https://metro.co.uk/2024/12/22/chilling-real-life-story-inspired-nightmare-elm-street-21813183/amp/29 Dec 2024 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3lehjanoad22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3ldtdw6u4as2qMy boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?21 Dec 2024 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldtdw6u4as2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3ldbtv4bsdk24Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [20/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚14 Dec 2024 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldbtv4bsdk24https://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3ld7cebqfdk2kChoose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [19/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚13 Dec 2024 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld7cebqfdk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3ld55ta6trc23Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [18/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚12 Dec 2024 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld55ta6trc23https://bsky.app/profile/danieljsheppard.bsky.social/post/3ld27ezko7s23Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [17/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚11 Dec 2024 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:z7aghzithrnkdgccpvvbkc7x/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld27ezko7s23