Cinema and Video
Revisiting "Hostel": Eli Roth's Enduring Cautionary Tale of Horror and Human Depravity – 20 Years Later
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“Hostel” as a most important horror of 2000s.
Cinema and Video
Dark side of the passion
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“In the Cut” — hidden gem of erotic thrillers that deserves more attention now than in release time.
Dechristianization in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
Gibson’s film illustrates the challenge facing Christian art in a post-Christian age: how to bear witness to transcendent truth in a culture.
The Pinchuk Art Centre: Two Decades of Cynical Art-Washing for Ukraine’s Most Polished Oligarch
The question for Ukraine—and for the Western art world that enabled it—is how many more decades this particular laundering operation will be allowed to run.
The Abyss Stares Back: Existential Despair, Horror, and Violence in the Cinema of Khavn de la Cruz
Through his transgressive lens, Philippine cinema becomes a universal mirror, compelling us to confront what it means to exist—and to persist—in the face of the void.
The Beautiful and the Abject: A Philosophical Analysis of Marian Dora’s Underground Horror Cinema and Nihilist Worlds
To dismiss Dora’s cinema as merely “sick” or “depraved” is to miss the point, and perhaps to engage in the very moral comfort that his films are designed to destroy.
