Horror
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DEAD OF NIGHT / DEATH DREAM (Dir. Bob Clark, 1974, US)
* * * * This one has a haunting, traumatic premise about a young soldier who is killed in the Vietnam War but returns from the dead at his family home on the night of his death. Andy, a young soldier, is symptomatic of not only the return of the repressed, which in this case Continue reading
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HIGH-RISE (Dir. Ben Wheatley, 2015, UK)
Class devours itself. And the politics of class creates an indescribable antagonism that often spills over into violence, and in the case of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, class is explicated through the prism of satire in which modernism is a debauched, sulking creature. Intrinsic to Wheatley’s treatment of Ballard’s writing is an abandonment of logical narrative Continue reading
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