This Brazilian film has plenty of bite, reserved in full for the bourgeois cannibal economy of capitalism.
Category: Film
“Man is the cruelest animal”: The Violent Language of Capitalism in PLEDGE
PLEDGE eviscerates toxic male culture in American fraternities by using violent capitalist imagery.
THE HOLE IN THE GROUND: A Surreal Nightmare of Motherhood and Mental Illness
Lee Cronin's film uses Irish folklore in an interesting modern way to tackle issues of motherhood and mental health.
Liminal Spaces of Sin: The Borders of Body & Soul in Antti-Jussi Annila’s SAUNA
SAUNA (2008) is a horrific slice of history that explores how sin destroys those who've lived their lives at war.
“We should have never come to this house”: Freud’s Uncanny & the Modern Gothic in SINISTER
Scott Derrickson's SINISTER is more than creepy, it's an unsettling collision of the Gothic past and a modern world.
“No more pain, no more death”: Fatalism, Free Will, & Fighting the Past in THE RITUAL
David Bruckner's THE RITUAL confronts issues of past v. present by way of a pagan death god. Cool, right?
Hypocrite Cops & Psychological Set-Spaces in Gustav Möller’s THE GUILTY
Gustav Möller's THE GUILTY walks an unsettling thin line to expose issues of police prejudice that are all too familiar in the 21st century
Transgenerational Wounds of Post-Pinochet Chile in TRAUMA
The latest film from Lucio A. Rojas is brutal and unforgiving, but not without a purpose— even if it's buried below a ton of gore and nasty violence.
Father Son Holy Gore 
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