Hollywood Horror Knights

Welcome to our Hollywood Horror Knights homepage, where education in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Medicine is provided through horror films.

If you’re a horror fan but prefer a broader scope of popular culture beyond film, check out our Horrorscope page. At Hollywood Horror Knights, you will find several courses and curricula that are built on some of the most famous horror films ever created. You can browse these didactics by clicking their titles in the left margin of this page or by scrolling down and clicking on the links found in the course descriptions


OUR DIDACTICS

  • REDRUM™

    REDRUM™ (Reviewing Mental Disorders with a Reverent Understanding of the Macabre) is a year-long psychopathology curriculum for psychiatry residents at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. If you’re interested in learning more, check out our webpage, where you can access our 2013 article published in Academic Psychiatry: The Horror!: A Creative Framework for Teaching Psychopathology Via Metaphorical Analyses of Horror Films.

  • CABNORMAL ACTIVITY™

    CABnormal Activity™ is our case-based discussion of a selected horror film scheduled on Friday mornings at 11:30 am EST. Don’t forget to visit the CABnormal ActivityTM webpage and playlist on our YouTube Channel, Wicked Knights. For true horror fans, our CABnormal Activity™ website is a must visit!

  • KNIGHTS WATCH™

    Knights Watch™ is our (another) case-based discussion of a selected horror film scheduled on Friday afternoons at 12:30 pm EST. You can receive a notification to join us on Instagram Live by following ThePsychiatristsLens on IG.

  • MASTERS OF HORROR™

    Housed in the School of Graduate Studies at Rutgers University in Piscataway, Masters of Horror™ (Behavioral Science, MSBS 5070S) is a 3-credit Fall elective for graduate students that introduces Behavioral Science and Psychiatry through case discussion of selected horror films.

  • 52in52

    52in52 is a weekly blog on MedEd Portal that follows an outline of a virtual road trip through the United States, which includes your favorite horror movies.

  • Cinema and Lit

    Cinema and Lit (abbreviated as C&L) in Psychiatry is a condensed version of REDRUM, run over the 6-week Psychiatry Clerkship in the Division of Psychosomatic Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.

    C&L
  • March2Madness™

    Each day of an NCAA tourney game, our sinister match-ups will be posted on Twitter. Simply cast your vote based on whatever criteria you choose who’s the strongest, scariest movie, etc. Be sure to click on the information link next to each monster for a quick sketch of their background (and how they relate to psychiatry).