Abject Objects: The Sinister Secrets of Andrew Currie’s Fido
“You weren’t very nice, but I’m sorry you’re dead”
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“You weren’t very nice, but I’m sorry you’re dead”
“We’re drawn to and fascinated by horror because the genre reminds us that we have both outsides and insides, skin and guts, eyes and gray matter, ideas and appetites.”
“How entertaining do you find this?”
Essays · Horror · Writers & Critics
“There are monsters that are born with a form that is half-animal and half-human . . . which are produced by sodomists and atheists who join together, and break out[…]
Actually, a lot
“What makes The Fury work in the end is the complementary sense that this conflict is part of the film’s very construction, so you can appreciate the audacity of the auto-da-fé.”
Directors · Essays · Genres · Horror
“Corman proved to be a surprisingly sympathetic collaborator with Poe, not only because of a shared fascination with abnormal psychology and the repression of the self, but because Corman, too,[…]
“We do not realize that ‘normal’ behavior needs to be explained at all.” —Laura Cosmides “Monsters today seem to be everywhere, and they cannot be destroyed. ” —Stephen Prince
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Horror
“The pain is my only reminder that he [Edward] was real.” — Bella (Kristen Stewart)
“We are no longer in an era of vampire stories.” — Jean-Luc Nancy
“The explicit nature of this wave of filmmaking can be interpreted as a riposte to modern cultural sensibilities.”
“The camera has a motor, you just turn it on and walk away” – Andy Warhol
Director Frank Barabont hijacks — and sinks — Stephen King’s powerful allegory of political oppression
Horror · Reviews · SF & Fantasy
“Hillcoat and his crew have taken the book’s hints and modeled their scavenging pair on contemporary images of homeless people, who already, as Hillcoat aptly puts it, are ‘living that apocalyptic world of day-to-day survival on the streets with no money and no food.'”
“It was once the figurehead of a slave ship. That’s where our people come from. From the misery and pain of slavery.” ~ I Walked with a Zombie
“Peer pressure is either a boon or a bitch with the power to destroy the world, or save it.”
I can feel the Twilight zeitgeist in the air tonight, perhaps it’s because I live across from the cinema and the line around the block and I hear them out[…]
“We keep returning to this story about pod people because we’re terrified of the continuing erosion of our physicality in the postmodern era.”
The first is a supernatural horror film. The second is a horror story without any trace of the supernatural. Otherwise, they are remarkably similar. Both apply the horror film’s fundamental[…]
“You can depend on Jason.”
