Tag: film
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Antichrist Superstars, from Gregor Mendel to Damien
The First Omen isn’t very scary. At least, not as a horror film typically is. It is basically not suspenseful and the scenes that are supposed to elicit horror and disgust are hamfisted and borderline pornographic. When it comes to the nuts and bolts of how the horror genre works, I look (reluctantly) to Stephen…
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Resistant Characters, as in, Alexia
The next part of my dissertation is about affect and character, so naturally I am putting the focus on Alexia from Julia Ducournau’s Titane, a film about a mysterious, murderous woman who is impregnated by a car. In her bouts of violence and her truly bizarre attempt to avoid detection by police in the aftermath…
Signs of Life 