Curry Barker's foray into film, Obsession, has been the belle of the boof this summer. It's traditional Monkey's Paw makeup has defied expectations by showing Hollywood can still produce interesting and profitable projects, and that not all YouTubers are unemployed.

We will be asking what insights we can gain from this and other tales of amour fou. Where does it fit in the canon of romance-gone-wrong horror films. Do these films have more to tell us about the manifold manic female love interests on screen, or perhaps more about the often divorced men who direct them.

With this in mind we will be exploring Cronenberg and Zulawski's divorce horrors the Brood (1979) and Possession (1981). With these, plus Kim Ki Young's the Housemaid (1960), we will explore how the genre has more broadly been used as a vehicle to explore relationships br ...