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So I finally put together a video essay about the thematic connections between Dead Ringers and A Zed and Two Noughts. I have no idea who the target audience is for that but thought I'd share it here anyway.

#dead ringers #a zed and two noughts #david cronenberg #peter greenaway #video essay #horror #film analysis #Youtube

bowhaus

More backrooms

Failed panoramic.

define failed

dude

the dream is collapsing

#thetix

shisasan

May, 1936 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939 [volume 2]

filmaticbby

Shivers (1975) dir. David Cronenberg

#shivers

haviverzes-deactivated20220402

“Feline heads“ Peru, Mochica culture 1st to 8th centuries AD

auntie

the cockroach man escaped again

#vivarium #not a particularly good film but had cool moments

bongjoonhoe

CURE (キュア)

— 1997, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

#cure

baredmirror

“One goes to a horror film in order to have a nightmare—not simply a frightening dream, but a dream whose undercurrent of anxiety both presents and masks the desire to fulfill and be punished for certain conventionally unacceptable impulses. This may be a matter of unconscious wish-fulfillment, following Freud: of confronting a hidden evil in the culture, as in Alien or The Stepford Wives; or of voyaging through the Land of the Dead and indulging a nostalgia for ritual, as we shall see when we turn to Frazer. Horror films function as nightmares for the individual viewer, as diagnostic eruptions for repressive societies, and as exorcistic or transcendent pagan rituals for supposedly post-pagan cultures. They can be analyzed in all these ways because they represent a unique juncture of personal, social, and mythic structure and because each of these structures has a conscious/official and an unconscious/repressed dualism, whose dialectic finds expression in the act of masking.”

— Bruce Kawin, “The Mummy’s Pool,” Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film (Ed. Barry Keith Grant)

Suicide Club / 自殺サークル (2001) | Dir. Sion Sono

#suicide club

muchunherr

#art #final destination 3 #cute!!

counttwinkula

hey did you know that uhh

i. the monster's body is a cultural body

ii. the monster always escapes

iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis

iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference

v. the monster polices the borders of the possible

vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire

vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming

counttwinkula

oh shit i didn't expect this to actually get notes lmao

these are all direct quotes from jeffrey jerome cohen's "monster culture (seven theses)" (full pdf linked) i highly encourage you to read it yourself!

that said, while i think cohen's writing is evocative, it can be a little dense, so while i'm here, here's my capsule summary (you can also hear me talk about this in the first episode of my podcast) (listen to @ghostswerepeopletoo)

i. the monster's body is a cultural body - The monster is a work of fiction to be analyzed through tools of literary and sociological theory.

ii. the monster always escapes - As long as the cultural fear from which the monster stems persists, the monster will reappear in retellings, reimaginings, and sequels.

iii. the monster is the harbinger of category crisis - Monsters defy binaries and challenge easy comprehension or categorization.

iv. the monster dwells at the gates of difference - The monster represents the Other.

v. the monster polices the borders of the possible - Tales of the monster exist to discourage unacceptable or taboo behaviors.

vi. fear of the monster is really a kind of desire - Subjects can vicariously participate in the disruption of the social order through the monster.

vii. the monster stands at the threshold… of becoming - Within the monster we find information about the self.

#theory