Reece Goodall

'Freddy's Scares and Scores: A Musical Analysis of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise' - A Nightmare on Elm Street @ 40, University of Nottingham (November 2024)

''You fuck with my family, you die!': monstrous fathers in the films of Radio Silence' - Cine-Excess: Blood Ties: The Family in Cult and Horror Cinema, Birmingham City University (October 2024)

'Reevaluating Carry On Screaming's (1966) Role in the Horror Parody Canon' - Carry On Conferencing, University of Warwick (May 2024)

''We all go a little mad sometimes': re-evaluating depictions of mental illness in the Psycho sequels' - Nightmare24, The Northern School of Art (April 2024)

‘The most reverent and holy slimeballs’: religious commentary in The Exorcist and Repossessed' - Cine-Excess 2023: Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, Birmingham City University (October 2023)

'Histoires de la sorcière: narratives of witchcraft in Marianne (2019)' - Witchcraft and the Supernatural in Belief, Practice and Depiction, Romancing the Gothic (August 2023)

'A Titane of French horror: an auteurial and genre analysis of Julia Ducournau' - Fear 2000: Horror Uncaged, Sheffield Hallam University (July 2023)

‘Untold stories: positioning Candyman through its unmade sequels’ - Candyman and the whole damn swarm, Sheffield Hallam University (October 2022)

'"I've seen this movie before": marketing the requel' - Fear 2000: Horror Undying, Sheffield Hallam University (July 2022)

'What's 'European' about European horror?' - Weekday Night Bites, BAFTSS Horror Studies (October 2021) - organiser and chair - link

'Alexandre Aja: a post-national genre auteur II?' - Global Gallicisms II: Circulating Frenchness through Mainstream Film and Television, University of Warwick/University of Paris (September 2021)

'La Rage du Démon: rewriting France’s history of horror' - Fear 2000: Horror Unbound, Sheffield Hallam University (September 2021)

'La nuit a dévoré la France: zombie cinema and French national identity' - Theorizing Zombiism 2: Undead Again, University of Gothenburg (July 2021)

'Alexandre Aja: a post-national genre auteur?' - NECS 2021, University of Palermo (June 2021)

'Fear and the banlieue in French horror cinema' - SMLC Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (January 2021)

''I was a lonesome cowboy': the Western and nostalgia in the Toy Story series' - Genre/Nostalgia, University of Hertfordshire (January 2021)

'Taking The Good Fight to Trump: impeachment and the 25th Amendment as narrative devices' - Trump, Television and the Media: From Drama to "Fake News" to Tweetstorms, London Metropolitan University (October 2020)

'"It's Your Crazy Mother!": maternal themes in the films of Maury and Bustillo' - Fear 2000: contemporary horror worldwide, Sheffield Hallam University (June 2019)

Reece Goodall, 'Game Horror as a Reflection of America', Offscreen 27:6-7 (2023) - link

___, 'What makes a major? Recent books on French studios', French Screen Studies 23:1 (2022): 36-41 - link

___, 'John Kramer for President: the rise of authoritarian horror', Horror Studies 11:1 (2020): 123-140

Goodall, Reece, 'Fact, fiction, and Conjuring a spin-off: narrative verisimilitude in Annabelle Comes Home (2019)' in Todd K. Platts (ed.), The "True" Case Files of the Warrens: Essays on The Conjuring Franchise (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)

___, ‘Mann and the Everyman: James Stewart, American Masculinity and Hollywood Stardom’ in R. Munro (ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Anthony Mann (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)

___, ‘Race, class and the Goal of the Dead: marginalised identities in French zombie cinema’ in L. Flores, E. Tonkin and C. Heffernan (eds.), Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, forthcoming)

___, ‘“Skip the drama, stay with mama”: a close analysis of anti-motherhood in Tangled’s “Mother Knows Best”’ in B. Thomas (ed.), Representations of Parenting and Parenthood in Disney-Animated Films (forthcoming)

___, 'Zombie Westerns' in Simon Bacon (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2025)

___, ‘Vampire Capitalism: Daybreakers and American Bloodsuckers’ in S. Bacon (ed.),The Vampire States of America (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming 2024)

___, 'Alexandre Aja: a post-national genre auteur' in Mary Harrod and Raphaëlle Moine (eds.), Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 89-105

___, 'Folk Horror in Inside No. 9: ‘Mr. King’ and Contending Eco-narratives' in Simon Bacon (ed.), Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023), pp. 303-316

___, 'Teenage Alienation and Fractured Identities: Re-Evaluating Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take' in Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and John Darokwski (eds.), A Critical Companion to Wes Craven (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023), pp. 91-104

___, 'Vampires and the Western' in Simon Bacon (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 1-14 - link

Ahlemeyer, Sophie Aimée, and Reece Goodall, ‘The unholy fusion of reproductive futurism and toxic nostalgia in Immaculate and The First Omen’ in S. Bacon (ed.), Toxic Nostalgia: Undead Memory in the 21^st Century (Lanham: Lexington Books, forthcoming)

Goodall, Reece, and Mary Harrod, 'Netflix Original Films and European Auteur Cinema: 'Universal' 'Particularities in Alexandre Aja's Oxygen' in Christopher Meir and Roderik Smits (eds.), European Cinema in the Streaming Era: Policy, Platforms, and Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp. 281-299

Tremea, Alice, and Reece Goodall, ‘Stephen Sommers: genre hybridity, popular auteurism and popcorn movies’ in M. Brittany and S. Woodward (eds.), No Harm Ever Came from Reading a Book: Critical Essays on The Mummy Franchise (University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming)

Reece Goodall, 'A Haunting in Alola - ghost narratives in the Pokémon franchise', Horror Homeroom (2025) - link

___, 'Wallace and Gromit and the case for Claymation in a world of AI', Animation Studies 2.0 (2025) - link

___, ‘“Watch carefully what is about to happen”: Les Documents Interdits and the interrogation of France’s cultural memory’, Horror Homeroom, Special Issue 7 (2023): 37-45 - link

___, 'Opening the Cabinet: Composing a Score for Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari', Weimar Film Network (2021) - link

___, Ralph Fiennes vocal stardom series, Animation Studies 2.0 (2021)

• 'Re-evaluating celebrity vocal stardom through the animated villains of Ralph Fiennes' - link
• 'Contextualising Rameses in the stardom of Ralph Fiennes' - link
• 'Accent, inflection, and Lord Victor Quartermaine' - link
• 'How voice makes a villain: Fiennes and the Moon King' - link