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January 23, 2022
The Mask: A Kinda Jungian Horror Thingy
The Mask was made in 1961 the year that Carl Jung died. There are four writers credited for the story that The Mask was based on: Franklin Delessert, […]
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January 9, 2022
The Pathological Ravings of Masumura’s Blind Beast
I don’t know what I can say or what anyone can say about Yasuzô Masumura’s movie Blind Beast except that it is pathological. I don’t know […]
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January 2, 2022
Red Paint, Entitlement AndChocolate Cake = Criminally Insane
Criminally Insane has that special grindhouse funk that makes you want to take a shower when it’s over. It’s an odiferous melange of low budget, in […]
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December 23, 2021
The Sympathetic Vibrations Of Candyman
If you press hard on a piano key it will not only sound the string connected to the key but it will vibrate a […]
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December 19, 2021
Silent Night Deadly Night And The Rise Of The Surveillance State
Silent Night Deadly Night is a mean-spirited film that revels in its own bitter nastiness. For someone who has had to endure 53 Christmases, It’s a […]
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November 21, 2021
Favorite Scenes №1: Nosferatu
In 1922 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau filmed the climactic end to his film Nosferatu. Our heroine, Ellen, sits cowering in her bed as the vampire enters her […]
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November 11, 2021
Wild Zero: A Cross Cultural Meat Grinder
In 1954 Godzilla lumbered out of the ocean to deliver the message that the coming nuclear age would bring terrifying consequences, but Japan had already suffered […]
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November 10, 2021
Feminist Themes In Frankenhooker
Frankenhooker, written and directed by Frank Henenlotter, fits easily into the is a 1980’s counter culture horror genre. It shares stylistic and thematic material with films […]
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November 9, 2021
Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer
In 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos released his remarkable film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Everything about its look and feel is unusual. The pacing, the compositions, […]
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November 8, 2021
Self Awareness in Rear Window vs. The Tenant
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Roman Polanski’s The Tenant are both films about observing and being observed. Rear Window was released in 1954 and The Tenant was released two decades later in 1976. […]
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November 8, 2021
The Manipulation of Sympathy in Parasite and Us.
In his movie Psycho, Hitchcock famously had Marion Crane, played by the movie’s biggest star Janet Leigh, murdered in the first third of the film. The audience […]
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November 5, 2021
You Will Never Ever See Another Film Like The Boxer’s Omen, Never.
About a month ago I ordered a bluray from what I can only imagine was a pirate. I paid twelve bucks for a disc that contained […]
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November 4, 2021
The Subjective Depiction of The Subjective In Robert Altman’s Film Images
Robert Altman’s 1972 film Images enhances the idea of the subjective camera by compounding it. He creates an unstable space where not only the character’s perceptions are […]
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November 4, 2021
Todd Haynes’ Horror Movie Safe
I saw Safe in the theater when it first came out in 1995. I remember it well because when the film ended I could hardly move. I […]
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