When Working on Set of The Lighthouse Seemed About as Fun as Working on an Actual Lighthouse By Sean M. Sanford You Gotta Fight for Your Light Robert Eggers's The Lighthouse is an incredible movie with breathtaking cinematography and imagery, haloed around two of the best acting performances seen either...
During the fascist Franco regime in Spain, Basque nationalists eventually rose to the point of committing domestic terrorism in the name of social change. The Platform aligns with this swift glide into barbarism by showing the flaws in "trickle-down" economics...
In Episode 1 in our Anatomy of Horror Series, we discuss Ari Aster's film language and how he used that language to create this horror masterpiece.
Three parts are mirror images of this existential ambivalence, reveal the true reflective nature of the alien force, and how Lena overcomes these self-destructive tendencies.
The Void's Relationship with Lovecraft (They're Not Just Friends) Sean M. Sanford  An Indirect Direction Somemovies are based on a book's idea more than the actual happenings (The Shining much?), while others can be based on a writer's entire design. The Void draws parallels to some cherished designs of...
A History of Violence: The Scars of American History  By, Kristin Grady  Is violence part of human nature or is it a cycle we can break? Canadian director David Cronenberg didn�t intend to glorify violence in 2005�s A History of Violence. The film is full of stark, color-based...
New Episodes: Anatomy of Horror Episode 6: It Follows In his masterful debut film, director David Robert Mitchell creates a visually stunning film unlike any other. With too much symblism to mine, we focus on a series of motifs that represent a time in one's life that exists between childhood...
Despite the immense guilt she felt about it, book Charlie LIKED starting fires. The movie lacked that delicious ambivalence we all feel about playing with destructive powers.
Clarice demonstrates several of these methods when extracting information from the willfully tight-lipped Dr. Lecter. By assessing these scenes, we can identify real-life practices employed by the FBI, how that reflects current and past practices, and fictional characters displaying admirable traits to which we hope all law enforcement agents aspire.
The Infinite Eleven's Anatomy of Horror The Infinite Eleven presents a new video series called Anatomy of Horror. Each episode is an analysis of an influential horror film starting with Ari Aster's brilliant debut film�Hereditary.�Below is a list of videos currently available or soon to be available: Hereditary - Currently...
�Greed and disgust� are Patrick�s only self-proclaimed identifiable emotions. These are the two sides of the Freudian Id. �Want� and �Do not want� rule his every decision.�
Panos Cosmatos Fosters His Own Monsters in�Mandy By Sean M. Sanford  Fostering a Monster I find that the question, �Have you seen Mandy?� is often followed by an exclamation of or equal to, �Holy shit.� The link between a concept and its composer can sometimes be dim to nil....
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