Putting Vivarium into this series is maybe a slightly left field choice but I think it makes for a fascinating haunted house movie precisely because it cuts against so many of the generic expectations of what a haunted house story should be. Traditionally, the haunted house was about the intrusion of a long-thought-buried history, reintroducing … Continue reading The Haunted House on Film Part Five
On The Representational Horror of Film The Director by Daniel Kehlmann translated by Ross Benjamin Black Flame, by Gretchen Felker-Martin Is not the reproduction of the illusion, in a certain sense also its correction? - Gilles Deleuze, CINEMA I Movement-Image I’ve started a new reading thread over on bluesky. It’s something I’ve done many times … Continue reading The Horror of Film: “The Director” and “Black Flame”
The last piece in the series (read it here, why not?) covered something of a classic so for this installement it seems appropriate to go for a more contemporary director who is clearly indebted to the form and aesthetics of older horror film. Who better than Ti West? However, I have to start with something … Continue reading The Haunted House on Film Part Three
Over the next few months I’ve decided to spend some time exploring the haunted house in horror film. Given the simplicity of the plots, and the general structure which has become so well established as to be cliche, these films are a useful way of exploring both the historical and ideological constructions of housing, and … Continue reading The Haunted House On Film Part One
The multiplicity of interpretations to which the Commune has been subjected, and the multiplicity of interests which construed it in their favor, show that it was a thoroughly expansive political form, while all the previous forms of government had been emphatically repressive. Its true secret was this: It was essentially a working class government, the … Continue reading The Democratic Modernism of Peter Watkins
The Haunt emerges from an almost yeat-long slumber. I don’t know if you’ve seen this or not, but Horror Vanguard put out our yearly Halloween special episode. A few years ago we decided to do something special for the first time and put out an episode that cracked the three hour mark. The following year … Continue reading Amityville Postscript
The apparent delight with which we dwell upon objects of pure terror, where our moral feelings are not in the least concerned and no passion seems to be excited but the depressing one of fear, is a paradox of the heart… difficult of solution. John and Anna Laetitia Aikin, “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects … Continue reading Hungry For Something
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