Ten years after the publication of Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film critic, scholar, and filmmaker Wickham Clayton returned to edit this follow-up to that book. Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film emerged at the start of a new age of critical attention to a subgenre that has been considered critically disreputable, but has maintained significant cultural relevance and popularity. Here is Style and Form in the Slasher Film II: Beyond Hollywood, a volume that turns the attention of film form and style towards films made outside of the Hollywood system, looking not only at the greater United States, but to North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Style and Form in the Slasher Film II: Beyond Hollywood brings together an exciting range of scholars, both experienced and new, to revisit well-established case studies, more recent and lesser-examined case studies, and international industries that create movies with formal connections to the slasher subgenre of horror. Furthermore, expanding upon the thesis hinted at in Style and Form in the Slasher Film, this follow-up makes a firmer, clearer argument for the integration of formalist methodologies to explore cultural texts in light of their sociopolitical contexts, arguing that through understanding how these films tell their stories we can better extrapolate what they mean for our political past, present and future both locally and globally.

Wickham Clayton is a UK-based author, filmmaker, and scholar. He is author of the BFI Film Classics volume on The Wicker Man and SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL!: Experiencing Friday the 13th (2020). Wickham is editor of The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium: New Heart and New Spirit (2020) and Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film (2015) as well as co-editor of Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Film and Television (2024) and Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon (2014). He is the director, writer and producer of the award-winning short film A Possible History of Ghosts (2020) and writer of the award-winning screenplay Bloody Men (2021).