BIO

Lindsay Hallam is a Senior Lecturer in Film, currently at the University of East London. She is an author, freelance film journalist and occasional filmmaker.

Lindsay has been teaching Film and Media, both theory and practice, for 15 years. She received her doctorate from Curtin University, which formed the basis of her first book, Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film, published by McFarland in 2012. She has also written for several peer-reviewed journals and anthologies about different aspects of horror cinema.

Her second book, on David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, is part of the Devil's Advocates series from Auteur Press, and is one of several different pieces she has written about Lynch's work in film and TV.

She is currently working on her third book, which will explore revenge in Australian horror cinema, to be published by Liverpool University Press as part of its Hidden Horror Histories series. 

Lindsay also writes outside of academia, for publications such as Sight & Sound, The Conversation, BFI, Biff Bam Pop!, 25YL and The Blue Rose Magazine. She regularly contributes to Blu-Ray releases for companies such as Arrow, Second Sight, Indicator, Severin and Vinegar Syndrome, in the form of booklet essays, video essays, audio commentaries and filmed extras.

Lindsay has also produced short films and directed a documentary, Fridey at the Hydey (2013) and a music video. Her latest short film They Called Me David, a horror/sci-fi shot on Super 8mm, premiered at Frightfest in August 2021 and has since screened at festivals in the US, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, Belgium and Iceland.