The Dawson Horror Studies Collective (DHSC) is a scholarly collective made up of faculty from Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, whose teaching and research involve horror in all its forms.

"Deep Cuts" is a series of screenings and discussions held at Dawson College each semester starting in the spring of 2022. The goal of this series is to bring students and faculty together from across the disciplines to build a scholarly community around discussions of horror and related media. Deep Cuts events are also open to the public.

Deep Cuts Coordinators: Rebecca Million, Jay Shea, Kristopher Woofter​

SCREENINGS & EVENTS
​​All screenings and lectures are free and open to the public. ​

FALL 2023

REVIEWS

• "Heartbreaking Horror about Alzheimer's" by Mark Kermode for The Guardian
• ​"A Film that Gorges on the Terror of Forgetting in a Feast of Dread" by Luke Buckmaster for The Guardian

PAST EVENTS

The inaugural DEEP CUTS screening event featured a screening of the horror hit Blood Quantum and an interview with filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, conducted by Jay Shea. Jeff was generous and candid, talking about this film and future projects that, sadly, we will never see, as Barnaby passed away not long after the event. 

We dedicate DEEP CUTS to Jeff Barnaby, and the horror visionaries who may be inspired by his work.

The second DEEP CUTS screening event celebrated 40 years since the release of John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) with opening remarks by Jay Shea and Kristopher Woofter, followed by a screening and discussion of the film.
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​Critically derided as too over-the-top and gory when it was released in June of 1982 (one week after the release of Spielberg's friendlier smash-hit E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial), The Thing has since been reassessed as a masterpiece of cosmic horror and existential dread. The film's themes around pandemic paranoia were resonant both in its time, with the HIV/AIDs crisis claiming lives, and continue to be so now.