The Black Swan needs Nina to unlock her sexual maturity and merge with her Shadow. After an aggressive first kiss, she lets Lily take over. Kneeling over Nina on her bed, Lily wears garters that make her look like a sexy gunslinger. Her lingerie...
Misery: Kathy Bates- Serial Killer by Kristin Grady The "Cliffhanger" scene in Misery gives Annie a long backstory of antisocial behavior and provides a turning point for Paul. Performing a flashback to her childhood, Annie reveals the source of her malicious fanaticism, a plot hole in her favorite series, Rocket...
Joker: Joaquin Phoenix Dancing with Himself By Kristin Grady Arthur Fleck sheds his identity like a snake's skin or the ashes of a phoenix! Get it? Joaquin Phoenix's Joker emerges as he embraces the madness within him. The implicit meaning is eloquently externalized by Arthur's improvised dances, exposing his innermost...
The transformation Wallace goes through is akin to obesity. Walruses are basically big bags of blubber with giant spikes on their faces. Losing his legs was like losing limbs to diabetes and general loss of mobility due to being overweight.
How Tobe Hooper Turned The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Into a Classic https://youtu.be/y1FsXwXAcuk We uncover the special brilliance and low budget ingenuity of Tobe Hooper in our Anatomy of Horror series. Only one man, Hooper, could have created possibly the most influential horror film of any era, The Texas Chain...
The singer's performance was intensely emotional, beautiful, and heartbreaking, it seemed so real. Rita and Betty exchanged a tearful glance that spoke without words. Any romance between them was part of the show, just an illusion, no matter how real it seemed.
The Vietnam timeline continues throughout the entire film, the truth slowly revealed in bits and pieces as it comes back to Jake. In the modern timeline, we're never sure if it's really happening or the entire thing is a fabrication...
Every villain needs a juicy origin story. Bill the Butcher has two, that of his real life basis, William Poole, and the fictional past of the character from "Gangs of New York". Their timelines diverge in many different directions, but both Bills serve as epic representations of the power struggles...
"David and I are going to have a baby..." Accompanied by an absolutely miserable expression. She says "going to" as if she's positive about her decision to go through with the pregnancy, but her inflection flips the meaning of her words around. The subtext is...
Anatomy of a First Time Director: A Dark Song In episode 12 of our Anatomy of Horror series, we explore Liam Gavin's 2016 debut A Dark Song. https://youtu.be/8v3RsQKNtqw A Dark Song A grieving, yet determined mother convinces an angry, alcoholic man to live with her in a dilapidated mansion hours...
Anatomy of an Auteur: The Devil's Backbone Mimic Fresh off a disappointing American premiere of Mimic(1997), Guillermo del Toro was a young director in need of some home cooking. Enter Pedro Almodovar, the Spanish language film icon. Almodovar could have cared less how the young del Toro fared in the...
Anatomy of The Exorcist In both our second and tenth episodes of the Anatomy of Horror series, we explore the depths of possibly the most iconic film of all time The Exorcist. In our second episode, we focus on the theme of loss of faith. The character most associated with...
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