Ari Aster burst into scene this past decade, dropping two instant hits in Hereditary and Midsommar and establishing himself as one of the most intriguing and sought-out directors in the business today. Both of his A24-backed arthouse horror films seem to have paved the way to an alternative way of storytelling in the genre, banking […]
Awards season has finally arrived, albeit a little later than usual. Thanks to a worldwide pandemic unrivaled by anything in modern history, cinema had to take a bit of a break while the world slowly restored itself. Although the world isn’t exactly functioning like it used to, we are slowly making our way to normalcy, […]
Remakes are a divisive area of cinema. On the one hand, they can provide a fresh perspective on classic stories and play with the ideas of previous films to make them more relevant to the world of today. They can also bring their predecessors to the attention of new audiences if they are largely unknown […]
The film historian Sheri Chinen Biesen writes in her book “Blackout” that there are two separate strains of film noir—one arose during wartime, the other followed it: “These early noir films created a psychological atmosphere that in many ways marked a response to an increasingly realistic and understandable anxiety – about war, shortages, changing gender […]
Cosmic horror is one of the most complex types of horror to examine. It is also one of the bleakest subgenres of horror. Based on the literary philosophy, Cosmicism, developed by the writer H. P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror focuses on the power of the sublime in order to make people feel inconsequential and small. There […]
Scifi has always been a vehicle for the exploration of philosophical, abstract problems actualized in imaginative technologies, theoretical futures, and alien worlds. Consider the Matrix films’ staging of problems surrounding artificial intelligence, Platonic/Descartian themes of consciousness and reality, in the digestible form of an action thriller, adapted to a reemerging interest in virtual reality technology […]