Episode 149: It’s Halloween Time, Let’s Study Horror Films!

It’s October here at UConn (and everywhere else!), which means it is almost Halloween and horror film season. Our guest on this episode of the UConn 360 podcast is professor of English Greg Semenza, who has been a member of the UConn faculty since 2001 and teaches a class called “The Horror Film” that has 100 students enrolled in each of the last several semesters. He also is the faculty advisor of the Husky Horror Club, which has 500 undergraduate members. Greg is a horror movie aficionado, and we ask him about some of his personal favorites, what exactly qualifies as a horror movie and why they are so popular today. He earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers and his graduate and doctoral degree from Penn State.

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Episode 149: It’s Halloween Time, Let’s Study Horror Films! is an episode from UConn 360: The UConn Podcast by UConn 360.

This episode is 22:07 long.

This episode was published on Oct 16, 2025.

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