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TYREL: Relative Terror in Black/White
TYREL explores how seemingly harmless behaviour, to white people, is not always so for people of colour.
Prayers to a Consumer God: American Decay + Ideological Control in THEY LIVE
Generally disregarded by the mainstream, John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE (’88) is a prophetic piece of sci-fi cinema.
Working Class Woes: Killer Capitalism in 1989’s INTRUDER
This slice of late ’80s horror offers blood, gore, and capitalist critique! Dig in.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: Carpenter’s Hyperviolent Dystopian Prison State
John Carpenter’s dystopian classic is a vision of a prison state where American democracy and institutions have failed; where violence and chaos reign!
Black Mirror – Season 4, Episode 2: “Arkangel”
After almost losing her young daughter, a mother has her implanted with a chip to monitor her whole life.