Leigh Whannell's UPGRADE is a kick ass horror thrill ride. It's also a deep, dark rumination on technological singularity.
Category: Film
URBAN EXPLORER: Confronting Germany’s Buried Nazi History
URBAN EXPLORER's not a good movie, but it has plenty of things to say about how we sometimes choose to hide the past rather than confront it.
KILL LIST: Gothic Nationalism’s Violent Erasure of Modernity
KILL LIST begins as a crime-thriller, ending as a horrific bit of Gothic terror, and full of relevant modern themes.
“Fear is a place”: SESSION 9’s Gothic Madness in Uncanny Places
Brad Anderson's SESSION 9 explores our relationship to Gothic places, such as asylums, where Freud's Uncanny creates a state of dissociation.
PYEWACKET— Or, How to Destroy Yourself + Others with Grief
Adam MacDonald's latest movie discusses mental illness and grief through a lens of modern witchcraft.
Nature’s Crucifixion by Capitalism in Paul Schrader’s FIRST REFORMED
FIRST REFORMED shows how religious faith is affected - and destroyed - by the modern world. It also illustrates extremism exists in every facet of life.
Unhealthy Fetish + Sexualised Trauma in Brett Leonard’s FEED
Brett Leonard's FEED is a twisted vision of modern perversion, where fetish crosses the border from normal sexuality into the repetition of trauma.
FRONTIER(S): Post-WWII Gothic and Political Invasion of the Body
Xavier Gens delivers a political piece of brutal body horror with FRONTIER(S)
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