South African Horror Cinema: From Apartheid to District 9 and Beyond

by Calum Waddell

This is the first study to explore South Africa both in horror cinema and as a formidable producer of celluloid scares.

From framing the notorious apartheid system as a mental asylum in the ground-breaking and criminally underseen Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970) to such seventies exploitation shockers as The Demon (Percival Rubens, 1979) through to the blockbuster hit District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501385062
• ISBN13: 9781501385063
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"