Mon, Oct 05
|801 E St NW
Profs & Pints DC: Venturing into Eco-Horror
“Venturing into Eco-Horror,” an exploration of a genre focused on humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world, with Joshua Barton, lecturer in English at Virginia Commonwealth University and scholar of horror.
Time & Location
Oct 05, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
801 E St NW, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “Venturing into Eco-Horror,” an exploration of a genre focused on humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world, with Joshua Barton, lecturer in English at Virginia Commonwealth University and scholar of horror.
What happens when nature stops being a passive backdrop to horror films and itself becomes the monster?
Join us as we explore eco-horror, a genre that channels environmental anxiety into green nightmares in the form of tales of toxic landscapes, invasive species, and planetary revenge.
The speaker, Profs and Pints fan favorite Joshua Barton, will look at how fears related to ecological collapse, climate change, and human hubris have shaped modern storytelling.
He’ll trace the roots of eco-horror in earlier works where nature rebels against human exploitation, including Steve Sekely’s The Day of the Triffids and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. From there, he’ll move into contemporary examples that reflect modern environmental anxieties, like Alex Garland’s Annihilation, Barry Levinson’s…