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Masking Threshold 2021
A self-styled empirical scientist studies his own unusual case of tinnitus. One of the best, if not the best, Gothic horror movies I've ever seen in that it perfectly captures the classic tension between the scientific method, personal ambition, and the draw of mysticism. As the unnamed protagonist encounters more and more obstacles to resolving his condition, he suffers an emerging positivist crisis and begins shedding the constraints of rationality. John is an iconic subject of so-called "Reddit brain", in…
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Razzennest 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
If the cursed director's commentary horror movie did not exist, man would have to invent it, and Johannes Grentzfurthner did. Just as his previous film Masking Threshold functions simultaneously as a first person gothic horror movie and a probing philosophical treatise on the uses and abuses of empiricism, Razzennest is both a biting satire of contemporary art house film and the challenges of conveying history in the cinematic medium.
In its satirical mode, Razzennest is a lot of fun. There…
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