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Messiah of Evil 1973
Five years before Romero’s Dawn of the Dead used zombies to critique the behaviours associated with rampant capitalism, Messiah of the Dead arguably did the same, adding to it much more pointed, caustic thoughts about the violence inherent in a capitalistic society. The curse in this film spreads not by physical contact, but just by being there in Dune Point’s atmosphere of apparent mistrust and rage.
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Longlegs 2024
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An innovative and aggressive marketing campaign may have prepared audiences for Longlegs’ nightmarish visual elements and unsettling tone but it certainly didn’t signal the film’s complex and deeply intimate take on motherhood and familial sacrifice. What has felt like an almost-interminable promotional lead up, during which Osgood Perkins’ latest offering has been touted as ‘the scariest horror film of all time’ and this decade’s answer to The Silence of the Lambs, has threatened to eclipse the crime thriller underneath it…
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In Fabric 2018
Peter Strickland might just be fucking with us. Every feature that he has made since (and including) the breakthrough Berberian Sound Studio is a world constructed by a prankster – full of dead ends, unexpected turns, and a sense of humour both whimsical and deeply malignant.
His latest In Fabric is easy to summarise on the surface – a cursed red dress leads to misfortune for those who wear it – but with that jumping off point it leads down…
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Pulse 2001
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Watching Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s J-Horror classic Pulse now, one of the first things you may notice is the sound of a dial-up modem, or the fact that the internet is accessed by installing software from a CD-ROM. More unusual to contemporary viewers is when computer science student Harue (Koyuki Kato) asks Ryosuke (Haruhiko Kato) why he decided to get onto the internet. At a time when everyone is expected to be on the internet, it seems an unusual question.
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