Tag Archives: horror film

Analysis

Jacob’s Ladder: A Proxy War

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...

read more
Analysis

The Platform

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...

read more
Analysis

A History of Violence: The Scars of American History

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...

read more
Analysis

Firestarter: Page to Screen

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.

read more
Analysis

The Silence of the Lambs: Interrogating Reality

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.

read more
AnalysisHome

Ringu vs. The Ring: The Culture Cycle

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.

read more