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Encapsulating internal agony: Trauma in modern experimental horror movies
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Defining a subgenre in modern horror movies that explores traumatic experiences and provokes catharsis of the audience — how do they work structurally and why do we enjoy A24 so much?
Very Bad Things: A Nihilistic Descent into Suburban Psychopathy
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Peter Berg, in his directorial debut, crafted a film that’s equal parts black comedy, horror show, and social satire, even if it doesn’t always know what it wants to be.
The Art of Montage, Realism, and Media Manipulation in The Last Broadcast
How works one of the most impressive found footage horrors ever
Disease as metaphor
Far from a mere gore-fest, I, Zombie offers a sociopolitical allegory that reflects late-20th-century anxieties about disease, social exclusion, and the erosion of identity.
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Violence as an art
Lucifer Valentine’s Vomit Gore Trilogy is a disturbing artifact that, from a feminist perspective, fails to transcend its misogynistic underpinnings.
Symptoms of evil
José Ramón Larraz’s Symptoms (1974) is a slow-burning psychological horror film that defies easy categorization, weaving a tale of isolation, repressed desire, and psychological unraveling.
Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Blood Feast (1963): An Ode to Camp, Violence, and Cinematic Madness
For fans of exploitation cinema, *Blood Feast* is like an old record—scratched but still uniquely resonant.
Sex, violence and Harmony Korine
“Trash Humpers” isn’t for everyone—it’s a endurance test, a mirror to our darker selves.
Baby in blood
“Baby Blood” is a visceral meditation on the horrors of enforced motherhood in a male-dominated world
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Cursed Hannah house
Hannah House* is a fascinating experiment in horror cinema, blending the aesthetics of 1910s silent films with the symbolic potency of snakes and the existential dread of Lovecraftian horror.
Untold story of absolute evil
“The Untold Story” challenges preconceptions of Asian horror. No vengeful ghosts or J-horror slow builds; this is pure grindhouse id.
