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CANDYMAN (Clive Barker/Bernard Rose 1992)
“I am Rumour.(…)I am the writing on the Wall.”-Candyman “I will use ‘doxa‘ throughout in the sense of ‘opinion’, ‘conjecture’ or ‘belief’. Doxa can still feature as the horrifying other of critical thought.”-Roger Luckhurst “This series, this virtual network, … gives rumours their strange authority.”-Hans-Joachim Neubauer Why is Candyman so compelling and powerful after all…
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The Lift/De lift [Dick Maas 1983]
The Lift is an incredible slick horror, neon-drenched 80s movie, perfect for late-night watching by dutch director Dick Maas [Amsterdamned 1988]. I would associate it with such weird midnight circuit movies as X-TRO [Harry Bromley Davenport 1982] or new flesh Videodrome – a style celebrated by Panos Cosmatos in Beyond the Black Rainbow. The Lift…
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The Mangler [Tobe Hooper 1995]
“Have you ever considered the possibility that the machine may be haunted?…Maybe ‘haunted’ is not a good word, let’s say possessed.”Mark I consider The Mangler an incredible classic of occult human-machinic fatal affair, of industrial sacrificial rites and demonic laundry labour. I would like to follow in a few movies the abrasive, deleterious and mutilating…
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The Films of Frank Gilbreth 1908-1924
It is impossible to asses here or gauge the impact of Fordist “efficiency experts” and early scientific management engineers Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr (1868-1924) and his wife Lillian Evelyn Moller on our lives, in their quest for increased output/minimizing downtime PLUS minimizing injuries and accidents to the workers. Their demonstration that rest-time(unemployment?) is actually improving…
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Love Eternal (2013)
one day, a cloistered young man decides that he doesn’t want to live anymore and he starts researching various suicide methods. tens, hundreds of them. but funnily enough, it’s precisely his obsession with death that keeps him alive. accessing a particular side of “love” that most people are willing to sweep right under the rug,…
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EXAELLA (anime 2011 by Andrew Oudot)
I restarted watching anime after a 4 or 5 year break. Exaella implodes with abyssal nausea, grime and orgiastic megastructures, familiar to the cavernous works of Tsutomu Nihei, so maybe that was my first cue. That being said, I truly feel we have a new and promising breed of anime: a Russian-Japanese-English production directed by…
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Death Machine (1994, UK, Stephen Norrington)
There is an endless array of youtube versions available of the movie, because it was mercilessly recut and reissued under various editions. It makes a good double feature with The Tower (1993). It’s also a movie who has characters named after Ridley Scott, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi – arguably the most influential sci-fi/horror…
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The Tower (TV, 1993)
The Tower has a lot to say about the occult nature of corporations. INTERCORP – the filmic corporation may be the first truly artificial, openly anti-human conglomerate, debugging itself as it debugs its human ’employees’ and their damaging activities and blunders. We can see but we cannot stop what its electronic eyes can scan, running…