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Crash Analysis Support Team: IT FOLLOWS (2014) – Guest Post from Jonny Numb
[100 minutes. R. Director: David Robert Mitchell] Horror films that expose the cracks in the suburban façade can be especially compelling when said facades are presented with a hint of accuracy. In BLUE VELVET (among many others), small-town America is a deceptive mask unto itself, where horror crawls beneath the surface, looking for any possible…
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Crash Analysis Support Team: The Elements of (Horror) Style Part II – Guest Post from Randy Brzoska
PART II: Some Key Assumptions “Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?”—The Silence of the Lambs So here it is late march and I’ve been sketching out ideas and topics I want to discuss in this series, and yet each time I sat down to…
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Crash Analysis Support Team: The Elements of (Horror) Style – Guest Post from Randy Brzoska
PART I: In Which the Author Introduces Himself and Asks a Question “ Horror… Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared.” —APOCALYPSE NOW Long before I pitched Billy Crash for some space on…
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Randy Brzoska’s 100 Greatest Halloween Flicks
Greatest Halloween On Screen It’s my favorite time of the year for movie viewing—when the shadows get longer, days shorter, and the horror movies come out on cable TV to play. But you know, I’m kind of picky about my Greatest Halloween movies. Don’t get me wrong; any good horror will do during the holiday. But…
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Crash Analysis Support Team: Under the Skin (2013) – Guest Post from Jonny Numb
[108 minutes. R. Director: Jonathan Glazer] No plot. No characters. And, for the most part, no coherent dialog. In many ways, it’s the unofficial sequel to ERASERHEAD everybody was too afraid to ask for. UNDER THE SKIN starts with a subtle yet potent visual punch: the progress of a pinhole of light, passing through unknown…