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[Commlist] Cine-Excess 2025 Revised CfP | Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film's Dead Objects
Fri Jul 25 08:36:32 GMT 2025
*/Cine-Excess International Film Festival and Conference <bit.ly/CECFP>/*
Monday 20th October to Sunday 26th October 2025
*Online Conference*
“Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects”
*In-Person Symposium*
Friday 24th October | Birmingham, UK
*_Scheduled Guests and Events_*
**
“/Re-Animator/ at 40: Brian Yuzna in Conversation”
*Brian Yuzna*, producer of /Re-Animator/, celebrates the film’s fortieth
anniversary
“50 Years of Canadian Body Horror: Lynn Lowry Reflects on /Shivers/”
*Lynn Lowry*, the iconic cult actor, celebrates fifty years of David
Cronenberg’s /Shivers/ with an exclusive streamed interview
Keynote Address: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes
*Xavier Aldana Reyes*, Reader in English Literature and Film at
Manchester Metropolitan University, provides this year’s keynote online
*_Call for Papers_*
“IT’S ALIVE,” manically proclaims the mad scientist in James
Whale’s/Frankenstein/(1931), the source material which not only nuanced
the Gothic but also gave birth to science fiction. And across the
plentiful variations and imitations of this classic text and its themes,
of course, body horror has given rise to affect our most primal fears
and social conventions, setting the scene for 2025’s iteration of
the/Cine-Excess/International Film Festival and Conference.
This year, we celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Stuart
Gordon’s/Re-Animator/(1985), a quintessential cult classic that blends
dark comedy and body horror to push the very boundaries of generic
acceptability. The film was created in tandem with producer Brian Yuzna,
and/Re-Animator/’s success would inspire later Stuart Gordon horror
films such as/From Beyond/(1986), whilst paving the way for Yuzna’s own
directorial career, including/Society/(1989),/Bride of
Re-Animator/(1990), and/Return of the Living Dead III/(1993). As part of
this year’s festival, we are delighted that/Re-Animator/’s legendary
producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to be joining in person to receive a
Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on the film, whilst also
receiving a posthumous award for the late Stuart Gordon.
/Re-Animator/is not the only cult classic celebrating a milestone in
2025, however, with David Cronenberg’s/Shivers/(1975) celebrating its
fiftieth anniversary, and George A. Romero’s Living Dead franchise
marking the fortieth anniversary of/Day of the Dead/(1985) and the
twentieth anniversary of/Land of the Dead/(2005). As a result, it is our
honour to welcome the iconic cult actor Lynn Lowry to this year’s
festival, who will be receiving a /Cine-Excess /Lifetime Achievement
Award for her role in /Shivers/ and Romero’s /The Crazies/ (1973),
alongside other cult releases such as /I Drink Your Blood/ (1971). Lynn
Lowry will be accepting her award and discussing her career with
festival delegates in an exclusive streamed session, hosted as part of
this year’s event.
Anniversaries aside, the unprecedented critical and commercial success
of Coralie Fargeat’s/The Substance/(2024) has driven body horror to the
forefront of knowing, mainstream visibility. In order to make sense of
this phenomenon as well as other generic developments over the decades,
we are delighted to welcome Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes as our keynote
speaker. Dr Aldana Reyes is a founding member of the Manchester Centre
for Gothic Studies, co-president of the International Gothic
Association, and the author of such monographs as/Contemporary Body
Horror/(Cambridge University Press, 2024),/Gothic Cinema/(Routledge,
2020), and/Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary
Literature and Horror Film/(University of Wales Press, 2014).
In addition to the emphasis on/Re-Animator/and contemporary body horror,
this year’s call for papers invites contributors to consider case
studies within an even wider range of different contexts that relate to
the themes of “reanimating” and “reviving” cult film’s traditions,
conventions, and (analogue) technologies. We would therefore welcome
20-minute papers or pre-constituted panels on the following topics:
* /Re-Animator/at 40: Critical Rejuvenations of the 1985 Cult Classic
* Surgical Siblings: Reanimating the Perverse Cinema of Brian Yuzna
and Stuart Gordon
* “Old Flesh Is Erotic Flesh”: /Shivers/, Cronenbergian Body Horror
and Its Legacy
* Lynn Lowry: Enduring Legacies of a Cult Film Star
* From Frankenstein to Frank-N-Furter: 50 Years of/The Rocky Horror
Picture Show/
* My Body, My Trauma: Contemporary Feminist Revisions of the Unsightly
* Back from the Box: Super 8, Videotape and the Contemporary Lure of
Dead Media
* The Power of Love:/Back to the Future/, Nostalgia and the Cult
Hollywood Blockbuster
* More than Dead Objects: Reclaiming the “Victim” Paradigm in Cult and
Horror Media
* “The Dead Will Walk the Earth”: George A. Romero’s Living Dead and
Zombie Media
* Remakes and Reboots, Reimaginings and Requels: Reviving Cult and
Horror Franchises
* Again and Again: Repeat Viewing and Replay Culture in Cult and
Horror Media
* “Sleep All Day, Party All Night”: Undead Evolutions in Vampire Media
* From Script to Screen: Recovering the Screen- and Teleplay as Dead
Object
* Magnifying the Maligned: Resuscitating the Neglected Texts of Cult
and Horror Media
* Apparitions of the Past: Ghosts in Cult and Horror Media
* Weird Science: Science Fiction and the Gothic Tradition
* Cult of the Dead: Posthumous Recognition(s) in Cult and Horror Media
* Historical Mediations: Repeating the Past in Cult and Horror Media
* Animating Cult and Horror Media: Animation, Art and Creative Technique
* Resuscitating Dead Careers: Acting Comebacks and Cult Lookalikes on
Screen
* Digging the Past: Unearthing the Hidden Histories of Cult and Horror
Media
/Cine-Excess/2025 invites proposals for*either*the online
conference*or*in-person symposium.*Participants should indicate their
preference when submitting their proposal.*
The online conference is expected to run for a minimum of two days on
the week beginning Monday 20th October, with*registration fees of £100 /
£50 (concessions)*. Registration fees include virtual attendance at the
conference, related streamed screenings and filmmaker talks.
The in-person symposium will be limited to a one-day event in
Birmingham, UK on Friday 24th October, with*registration fees of £150 /
£100 (concessions)*. Registration fees include in-person attendance at
the symposium and related cinema screenings, as well as access to the
online components of/Cine-Excess/2025.
Since 2007,/Cine-Excess/has developed and nurtured a reputation as an
inclusive and safe space in which to present new work around global cult
film cultures. We welcome submissions from emerging and established
scholars, activists, filmmakers, and community groups.
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio by*Friday 15th August
2025*to:
John Atkinson, Editorial Lead of/Cine-Excess/
(john.atkinson /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) <mailto:(john.atkinson /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>
Dr Daniel Sheppard, Associate Director of/Cine-Excess/
(daniel.sheppard /at/ bcu.ac.uk) <mailto:(daniel.sheppard /at/ bcu.ac.uk)>
Professor Xavier Mendik, Director of/Cine-Excess/
(xavier.mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) <mailto:(xavier.mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>
Final decisions will be communicated no later than*Friday 22nd August 2025*.
We will subsequently invite a limited number of participants to rework
their papers for inclusion in the eighth edition of
the/Cine-Excess/journal, set for publication in 2026.
For more information on this year’s/Cine-Excess/,visit our website
<bit.ly/CECFP>.
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