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| | MMU | MIRIAD | VC | European Nightmares — An International Conference on European Horror Cinema - Gérard Kraus |
 | | Despite the fact that Luxembourg hosted the production of internationally renowned co-productions such as Dog Soldiers (Lux/UK) and Shadow of the Vampire (Lux/USA) it was only on Halloween 2005 that the first bona fide Luxembourgish Horror film, entitled Zombie Film, made its way to mainstream cinemas. |
 | | Beyond, or rather beneath this, most prominent outing of the horror film in Luxembourg, I propose to have a look at other hardly distributed genre films such as Rendolepsis and Black King’s Way, made by independent filmmakers in Luxembourg, and the ways they are treated if the public eye notices them at all. |
 | | Working with three levels of cultural production, the dominant global, the national Luxembourgish and the specific horror subculture of the Grand Duchy, I intend to identify the relations that are made between these three, a difference that becomes apparent when comparing the public presence of the films. |
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