Many thanks to all of you who sent in thoughts and suggestions. This is extremely helpful. The complete list of suggestions is compiled below for anyone else who might benefit from such a resource.

Best,

Elizabeth

Films

 

Batman Begins

Celda 211   

El Secreto De Sus Ojos

Broken Blossoms (Griffith)

The Searchers (John Ford)

Frankenstein (James Whale)

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The Thing (and its Cronenberg remake)

The Fly (both versions)

Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940, Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders) Gaslight (Cukor, 1944, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten)

Buried (Rodrigo Cortes)

Lost Highway (Lynch)

Blue Velvet (Lynch)

Mullholland Drive (Lynch)

The X-Files -  'Home' (Season 4 episode 2)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Passage to India (1984)

Bad Seed (1956)

Hour of the Wolf

The Conversation

The Tingler (Castle)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Alien

Peeping Tom

Cape Fear (1962 and 1991)

Night of the Hunter

Doctor Who (particularly “Blink” from 2007)

Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)

The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)

Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens ("A Symphony of Terror/Horror" Murnau, 1922)

Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Herzog 1979)

Tesis (Amenábar, 1996)

The Blair Witch Project

All that Heaven Allows (Sirk)

Far From Heaven (Haynes)

Antichrist

Dogville

Cronos

Dog tooth

Irreversible

Demons (Lamberto Bava 1985)

In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter1994)

Shadows and Fog (Allen)

The American Friend (Wenders 1977)

Man on Wire

Full Metal Jacket

Come and See

Fear (Rossellini)

Te Doy Mis Ojos [Take My Eyes] (Icíar Bollaín, Spain, 2003

Films of Michael Haneke

 

Event

 

Insect Fear Festival: http://www.life.illinois.edu/entomology/egsa/ifff.html

 

 

Readings

 

Fictional Worlds: Traditions in Narrative and the Age of Visual Culture by Anderson

 

kristeva's notion of abjection.

 

essay on the animating nature of abjection by Peter Hutchings in the anthology The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation (1991), edited by Cholodenko