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Necessary horror

A collection of 3 posts
Through a Screen Darkly - Bonus Commentary - Spooked by Safe
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Through a Screen Darkly - Bonus Commentary - Spooked by Safe

This reflection on Todd Haynes' film Safe was originally intended as part of the examination of horror films in Through a Screen Darkly. • "Is it safe?" Thanks to a nightmare-inducing movie called Marathon Man, those three simple words send chills down my spine. Laurence Olivier asked that
28 Nov 2008 6 min read
On Books & Writing

Comparing Robert Bresson and Flannery O'Connor

The new issue of Senses of Cinema sounds is a feast of thought-provoking essays. Not only does it have a feature on the long, slow emergence of Blade Runner as a classic, but it features four essays on Robert Bresson... including one that asks us to consider the correlation of
13 May 2007 1 min read
On Movies & Media

Hostel takeover: "Horror pornography" tops the box office, defeats Aslan

(Thanks to Peter T. Chattaway for noting this so quickly.) A movie that gives audiences the opportunity to watch human beings tortured, decapitated, having their throats cut, their heads smashed in, parts of their body chopped up and thrown in a furnace, shot point blank, their eyes dangling from their
07 Jan 2006 1 min read
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