Tag: Michel Foucault

“Fear is a place”: SESSION 9’s Gothic Madness in Uncanny Places

On By C.H. NewellIn Brendan Sexton III, Film, Gothic Horror, Horror, Josh Lucas, Peter Mullan1 Comment

Brad Anderson's SESSION 9 explores our relationship to Gothic places, such as asylums, where Freud's Uncanny creates a state of dissociation.

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: Carpenter’s Hyperviolent Dystopian Prison State

On By C.H. NewellIn 1981, Action, Donald Pleasence, Film, Harry Dean Stanton, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Nick Castle, Sci-FiLeave a comment

John Carpenter's dystopian classic is a vision of a prison state where American democracy and institutions have failed; where violence and chaos reign!