Callum O`Kane is a graduate student in Film and Media Studies and English at the University of Pittsburgh. He received both his BA and MA in Film Studies at King’s College London. His primary research interest lies in the ideological underpinnings of the horror genre, and he has written numerous essays and two dissertations on the subject, drawing on both film-philosophy and critical theory. Most recently, his work has examined the intersectional politics of contemporary horror, exploring how the monstrous forms of popular culture are encoded with our interconnected anxieties about class, gender, sexuality, race and ecology.