Until Dawn and the Capitalistic Cannibalism of the Wendigo

Enter the Void and The Horror of Cinematic Sensorial Death

It Follows and The Social Artificiality of Female Promiscuity

Gorgo and the British Kaiju Blitz Come And See: a long-lost treasure plundered! Come And See: an idyllic coastal town in Ireland...

Rope and Underlying Homoerotic Tensions "Those things which are included in the following list shall not appear in pictures produced by...

Videodrome and Infections of Video Violence The prosecution insisted that the videocassettes that were seized from VIPCO’s offices were:...

Alien and Fears of Unnatural Pregnancies A red stain. Then a smear of blood blossoms on his chest. The fabric of his shirt is ripped...

The American Monsterverse and Godzilla as a Gaian Eco-Warrior

Cat People and Patriarchal Fears of Feminine Sexual Power

Cloverfield and American Apocalyptic Imagery on Screen By the turn of the millennium, New York City was used to being destroyed....

Body Double and the Trashing of Noir A sexually-frustrated man watches an exotic woman dancing out of his window, voyeuristically...

Double Indemnity and Fatalism It was Friday when She walked into my office. The low light of the November afternoon was filtering through...

Classic American Film Noir Film Noir can be an incredibly challenging thing to define. Likely, you know what it is when you see it: it’s...

Pan's Labyrinth and Del Toro's Auteur style Questions of authorship are quite simple for narrative literature. In the written and...

Friday the 13th, The Slasher Genre and the Interstitial Gender Space Heavy breathing. Laughter floats in the air. The twigs snap under...

Saw and Justifying "Extreme Interrogation" Post 9/11

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and 1970s Incoherence in Horror On the whole, American history throughout the 1970s is now recognised as ‘a...

Fight Club and Marxist Film Theory The capitalist mode of production can be defined, in the most reductive way possible, as one that is...

The Blair Witch Project and the difficulty between ideal cinematic presentation and the illusion of reality Often viewed as one of the...