About

Dead Channel

Look up a horror or cult film and see what scholars have written about it. The literature, the links between films, the book it was adapted from.

Hello — I'm the person who made this. I'm a fan of horror and cult cinema, and I wanted to know more about the films I love, so I built Dead Channel.

Search for a film by title and you'll see how it connects to other films, along with the scholarly writing about it. If the film was adapted from a book, that's shown under the title — open it and you can go straight to somewhere the text can be read or bought. I hope you enjoy using it :)

I also built a foreign-language reader called Lucerna. It handles books in a number of languages and is meant for learning English, French and German — tap a word to look it up, keep notes, build flashcards. If that sounds useful, there's a free trial at lucernaread.com.

Markers

A filled drop means the paper is open access and can be read right away. A hollow drop means it sits behind a paywall. The same two marks are used for source books: filled if the text is free to read, hollow if it isn't.

Sources

OpenAlex
Scholarly literatureCC0
Wikidata
Original titles, directors, source novelsCC0
Project Gutenberg
Whether the source book is free to readPublic domain
Open Library
Where to borrow it

Paper titles link out to Google Scholar.

Ordering

By number of papers.