Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
Born in Montreal, Mario is a “monster kid” who teaches courses on genre cinema, grotesque traditions, and monster ethics in the Humanities department of John Abbott College. He began to watch monster movies at the age of 9, staying up to watch Hammer films on late-night television. He has been an independent filmmaker all his life beginning with his first super-8 film, ONE DARK NIGHT, which he shot in his parents’s back yard. His films combine a love of silent cinema, “exploitation films,” the horror genre, and attractions-based sensibilities. He is also a programmer and coordinator at the Montreal Underground Film Festival. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, and is presently finishing a book linked to the history of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre, entitled SINISTER TABLEAUX: GRAND-GUIGNOL CINEMA, CORPOREALITY AND THE SENSES. He has published articles on the Grand-Guignol and cinema in the journal HORROR STUDIES (5.1), and in the book, RECOVERING 1940s HORROR: TRACES OF A LOST DECADE (2015), for which he is a co-editor. He is also publishing an article on Jean Rollin for the book, GLOBAL FEAR: INTERNATIONAL HORROR DIRECTORS (Intellect Press, 2016). He is an occasional writer for the Canadian horror genre magazine RUE-MORGUE.
Upcoming Events
Previous Events
 | THE MONSTERS OF HAMMER HORROR Tue. Nov. 9, 2010 - Tue. Nov. 23, 2010 - 12:00 am |
 | THE 'TERROR' FILMS OF VAL LEWTON Wed. Nov. 23, 2011 - Wed. Dec. 14, 2011 - 12:00 am |
 | FRAGMENTS OF THE MONSTER: RECOVERING FORTIES HORROR Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 - Mon. Dec. 3, 2012 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | SMALL SCREENS, BIG CHILLS: CLASSIC AMERICAN TV HORROR Tue. Jan. 22, 2013 - Tue. Feb. 26, 2013 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | DREAMING REVOLT: JEAN ROLLIN, THE FRENCH FANTASTIQUE AND BEYOND Tue. Apr. 16, 2013 - Tue. Apr. 30, 2013 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | Yuletide Terror!: Trivia Party Tue. Dec. 17, 2013 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | H.P. Lovecraft – From Cosmic Horror to Heavy Metal Tue. Feb. 4, 2014 - Tue. Mar. 4, 2014 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | X-mas Dread: Ghost Story Party Tue. Dec. 9, 2014 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | Theorizing Horror, Part 2: Horror and Sensation Tue. Feb. 17, 2015 - Tue. Mar. 24, 2015 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | Miskatonic, Fall 2015 Curriculum & Registration Tue. Sep. 29, 2015 - Sat. Dec. 5, 2015 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | Mondo Realism and the Cinema of Joe D'Amato Tue. Sep. 29, 2015 - Tue. Oct. 13, 2015 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | Documenting Horror Tue. Feb. 2, 2016 - Tue. Mar. 15, 2016 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | MISKATONIC, Winter 2016 Curriculum & Registration Tue. Feb. 2, 2016 - Tue. Apr. 12, 2016 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | Women Horror Directors Tue. Sep. 27, 2016 - Tue. Nov. 1, 2016 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | Slasher Theory: Reassessing an Undervalued Subgenre Tue. Jan. 24, 2017 - Tue. Feb. 28, 2017 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | Duane Jones: Race and Revolution in the Vietnam Era Tue. Nov. 28, 2017 - Tue. Dec. 5, 2017 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
 | The Music of Horror Tue. Jan. 23, 2018 - Tue. Feb. 6, 2018 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
