“We live, as we dream—alone” – Joseph Conrad Although many see existentialism confined to the literary world, in reality it creeps into the dark latitudes of the cinematic sphere. Horror as a genre and existentialism as a philosophy actually share something in common. Both attempt to elicit a negative emotional response: what Jean Paul-Sartre described […]
Author: Kyle McDonnell
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15 Horror Movies Which Unmask the Fears of Different Generations
We like to think that we all share the same common fears: death, decay, monsters, uncertainty, intimacy, and so on. Whilst horror movies are expected to play on these visceral fears, a truly terrifying film will find horror also in the modern-day. A horror film can thus expose the blight which ate away at a […]