Amongst the recent wave of elevated arthouse horror, there is one trope that’s becoming popular: the twist to turn the ‘Final Girl’ from a sacrificial victim of a cult, to their Chosen One. It’s a twist that highlights a character’s disillusionment from the ‘normal’ society, and twists like this are what make horror movies appealing in our current hellscape. Like Nyx Fears said in her video about Midsommar, it’s time to join a cult!

Bokshi, the debut film from Indian…

Looking at its production background, I don't like to be negative about it, but if we want new media to be taken seriously we need to critique it seriously.

Identiteaze is a set of neat ideas bursting at the seams to be told as long as possible, and in the process rushes through and forgets the important groundwork. The two main character, the multiple identities/genders of seemingly one identity, are drafted so vaguely to be ironically reduced to types. The…