Jenn Wexler’s debut feature film examines what separates the city and the rural while also looking at how goddamn tough it is being a woman.
Tag Archives: Urbanism
“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?
NOMADS: A City’s Old Horrors Linger On
John McTiernan’s debut NOMADS bridges past and present— a Gothic horror set in LA, where evil spirits/bikers lurk.
388 ARLETTA AVENUE: Infiltration of a Complacent Private Sphere
388 ARLETTA AVENUE is a chilling reminder not to get too complacent about security in the suburbs.
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.
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.
NIGHTBREED— Or, A Tale of Two Cities
Clive Barker’s NIGHTBREED explores the difference between experiences in the city, focused on those with power v. those without.
The Horrors of Homelessness in STREET TRASH
STREET TRASH is just a B-movie with nothing to say. Or, maybe it says a lot of things about NYC in the 1980s. Maybe?
