superstitions

THE RELIC [Peter Hyams 1997]

March 2, 2015 Respond

The Relic is about what actually happens when ‘Indiana Jones’ returns back from the temples, the tombs, the jungles to civilization under the spell of “curious or menacing objects”. Peter Hyams is top on my list of directors just because he’s behind both The Relic and A Sound of Thunder (2005). In a sense both…
CANDYMAN (Clive Barker/Bernard Rose 1992)

February 28, 2015 Respond

“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…
The Mangler [Tobe Hooper 1995]

February 23, 2015 Respond

“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…

THE RELIC [Peter Hyams 1997]