Pale Gaze: the Postwar Medical Horror of EYES WITHOUT A FACE
A version of this article originally appeared in issue 23 of Diabolique Magazine, March/May 2015. If you were a horror fan in 1962, chances are you may have pulled into […]
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Corporeal Punishment: David Cronenberg’s THE BROOD
A version of this article originally appeared in issue 22 of Diabolique Magazine, Aug/Sept 2014. In spite of the most widely accepted connotation, the first definition of the term pregnant […]
From Darkness, Light: Blindness and Home Invasion in WAIT UNTIL DARK
A version of this article originally appeared in issue 21 of Diabolique Magazine, May/June 2014. 1967 was something of a watershed year for Hollywood, during which cultural and critical cache […]
A DREAM GOES ON FOREVER: Focalization and Invocation in THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
“In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we […]
A Tale of Two Godzillas
When talking about Godzilla, either as a film or a cultural icon, one must be careful to distinguish between the “King of the Monsters” who squashes cities underfoot and frequently does […]
The Filmmaker is Present: Authorial Immersion and Intervention in the Films of Ondi Timoner
About an hour into We Live in Public, Ondi Timoner’s 2009 profile of Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris, there is a sequence depicting an altercation between Harris and his then-girlfriend Tanya […]
My Friends are the Best People: Narrational Bias in Barry Lyndon
Time is often kind to the films of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s technical mastery is such that his works tend to age better than films of similar vintage, rarely seeming dated […]
Gravity’s Message is Too Earthbound
WARNING: This review contains spoilers, including a discussion of the film’s ending. Being stranded in outer space is a terror of unfathomable proportions for most. Beyond the purely logistic horrors […]
“This can’t be the end of the dream.”
There is an ephemeral quality to the films of Harmony Korine, the sense of fleeting, unguarded moments, captured perhaps by happenstance, and arranged so loosely as to seem almost plotless. […]
No Pain, No Gain
The idea that sacrifice is necessary for success, that effort and expense are required to turn one’s velleity into reality, has long been encapsulated with admirable concision by the epigrammatic […]
Considering Film 