"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 an Auteur: The Devil's Backbone Mimic Fresh off a disappointing American premiere of Mimic(1997), Guillermo del...
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...
A History of Violence: The Scars of American History  By, Kristin Grady  Is violence part of...
New Episodes: Anatomy of Horror Episode 6: It Follows In his masterful debut film, director David Robert Mitchell...
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.
�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.�
Before you die, you see the ring. The chilling concept of a lethal film has universal appeal because of cinema�s profound effect on our psychology. American remakes of Japanese horror films became popular in the early 2000�s after the release of The Ring (2002), based on the 1998 independent film Ringu. Kansei Engineering is a Japanese method of technological development which requires a product to appeal not only to the reason of the buyer, but to their senses as well. Born (perhaps unconsciously) from this concept, a VHS tape can record family-oriented home videos or the hideous visions of a deranged psychic child. The constant evolution of Japanese technology reflects the cyclical nature of the cursed video tape, which must be passed on like a deadly chain letter.
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