Cloverfield: A Sacrifice of Blood
Abrams recognizes that the spectacle of someone's hazarding his/her life for another taps into some deep, very wide Truth . . .
Horror Reviews
- Cloverfield: A Sacrifice of Blood
- Secret Window, Popular Myth
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose: Not Very Post-Modern of 'Em
- The Eye: Permeable Boundaries
- The Hills Have Eyes: A Sequel to a Long-Lost Curiosity
- The Ring: Lessons in Fear
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose: A Taxonomy of Belief
- The Host: Monster Movie with a Message
- The Ring: Narcissism, Totalitarianism, and Intellectual Dissatisfaction
- Sex with Satan: A Polanski Palooza
cinekklesia :: Horror
February 13, 2008The Exorcism of Emily Rose: A Taxonomy of Belief
Movies like (this) are almost guaranteed to send any tried-and-true atheist into an apoplectic fit.
The Host: Monster Movie with a Message
If there is a problem lurking on the peninsula...then according to the film, it can (and should) be solved by Koreans.
The Hills Have Eyes: A Sequel to a Long-Lost Curiosity
If the most fantastic kind of horror film can find no place in its radically realigned social matrix for characters with disfigurements and disabilities, who will?
Sex with Satan: A Polanski Palooza
What bothers me most is that both films move from the act of sex with Satan towards the notion of a sexy Satan, a Satan whom we will benefit from embracing . . .
The Eye: Permeable Boundaries
Many contemporary disability activists and theorists believe that any talk about spiritual matters constitutes an evasion of embodied experience . . .
The Exorcism of Emily Rose: Not Very Post-Modern of 'Em
There was a time when the horror genre took seriously the supernatural divide between good and evil . . .
The Ring: Narcissism, Totalitarianism, and Intellectual Dissatisfaction
...a being whose only raison d'etre is drawing the entire universe's attention to herself.
Secret Window, Popular Myth
It’s refreshing to see a flick that takes seriously the spiritual and psychological damage incurred by marital failure.
The Ring: Lessons in Fear
The Ring scares so successfully because it taps into so many different kinds of fear . . .