Philosophy Horror Films
Halloween is almost upon us, and to mark the occasion, Nolen Gertz, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Twente, Ethicist For Hire, and philosophy comic strip artist, took to Twitter recently to list some philosophy horror films (#philosophyhorrorfilms):
#PhilosophyHorrorFilms
The Schopenhauering
Texas Chainsaw Marxist
An Arendtian Werewolf in London
Evil Derrida 2: Deconstructed by Dawn— Nolen Gertz (@ethicistforhire) October 24, 2017
A few others, including yours truly, joined in:
#PhilosophyHorrorFilms
“Being and Time to Die”
“The Grinding (of the Metaphysics of Morals)”
“On the Plurality of Deaths”
“Leviathan”— Daily Nous (@DailyNousEditor) October 24, 2017
Hegel: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Dasein from the Black Lagoon
Das (wicker) Man
Beyond Good and Evil 2 : Electric Boo-galoo— Philosophy Matters (@PhilosophyMttrs) October 25, 2017
Wittgenstein’s Monster
The Twilight of The Idols Zone
Externalists Know What You Did Last Summer— Hans Kemtrup (@HKemTweets) October 25, 2017
And there are some entries under the same hashtag from previous years:
Adams Family Values #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— David Papineau (@davidpapineau) November 1, 2014
Beyond Good And Resident Evil #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Keith K. (@KeithKtheWriter) November 1, 2014
It Necessarily Follows #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Gordon Bill (@GordonOvBill) October 23, 2015
Error on Elm Street #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Fredrik Stjernberg (@frestj) November 1, 2014
The Man Who Knew He Didn’t Know Too Much #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Elizabeth Picciuto (@epicciuto) November 1, 2014
28 Weeks Later After Submitting to a Journal… #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Elizabeth Picciuto (@epicciuto) November 1, 2014
Cogito Ergo Sum of All Fears #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Tim Squirrell (@timsquirrell) November 1, 2014
The Sixth Sense Datum #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Tim Squirrell (@timsquirrell) November 1, 2014
Dial M for Iris Murdoch #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Michael Cholbi (@MichaelCholbi) November 1, 2014
Human All Too Human Centipede #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Adam Worrall (@remedy) November 1, 2014
Little Schopenhauer of Horrors #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Josh Lury (@NJLury) October 31, 2014
What It Feels Like To Be A Bat #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Philosophy Bro (@PhiloBro) October 31, 2014
and, of course:
The Job Market #PhilosophyHorrorFilms
— Elizabeth Picciuto (@epicciuto) October 31, 2014
Your entries in the pantheon of philosophy horror films are welcome.
You can tell how little I want to grade right now by the number of these that occurred to me.
The Budget Slasher
The Dead Undead: Somebody Call a Priest!
Fatal Objection
A Hypothetical on Elm Street
The Inauthentic Dead
Ockham’s Razor: Tonight, He Will Be Justified In Believing In One Less Entity
Psycho Physicalist
Rosemary’s Thesis
The Texas Theory Massacre
The Thing Itself
The Trolley: Your Only Choice Is Death
Wittgenstein’s Box: Don’t Look Inside
You-Die-Monea: What is it to live? Well?
Freddy vs. Descartes: A Clear and Distinct Perception of Injury
An X Such That X Is From The Black Lagoon, And For Any Y, If Y Is From The Black Lagoon, Then X = Y.
Phänomenologie des Poltergeistes
Bride of Wittgenstein
Let the Right One and the Many In
The Gadfly
Descartes’ Pet Sematary (cringe)
De Anima-tor
The Silence of the Amphibolies
The OM-en
The Sixth Sense and Sensibilia
Lucio Fulci’s P-Zombi 2
The Scheining
Paranormal Energeia
Beyond Good and Evil Dead
Beyond the Veil of Ignorance
The Stranger (Things)
Occam: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Philosophical Zombieland
The Grave Heidegger
Too Jung to Die
666: The Marx of the Beast
Pettit Sematary
Honestly, this is the most grateful I’ve ever been that Justin allows us to post anonymously.
Gettier Out
The Man Who Had Too Many Justified True Beliefs
Frankfurtstein Meets the Wolf Woman
Plantinga of the Apes
The Blog
Beats the hell out of grading logic exams!
The Critique of Judgment Day
The Ring (of Gyges)
The Thing (in itself)
Alien(ated Labor)
Psycho(logical Explanations)
Frankensteins and Symbols
Making It Explicit (or: Stephen King for Dummies)
The WIcker Man’s Search For Meaning
The Philosophical Good Friday the 13th (maybe only for fellow Hegel nerds?)
The Innocents and Reference
The Jaws of Plato
Bride of Kripkenstein.
The Ghosts of Departed Quantities (that might be an HPS-crowd in-joke: does anybody read Berkeley’s The Analyst?)
The Gorgonology of Morals
I Will Make You Into A Body Without Organs