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Tag Archives: Vicenzo Natali
Horror of the Absurd
I prefer absurd horror. Naturalism and magical realism take all the fun out of it. I don’t want to take out the DVD and know that if I simply avoid this particular campsite or houses built on ancient Indian burial grounds, I’ll be safe. I don’t want to know about the troubled childhood of the ghost or the serial killer. The true horrors are in the unknown, and more so, in the unknowable. Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrei Tarkovsky, Blindness, Cube, Fernando Meirelles, film, High Rise, horror, La cabina, lord of the flies, Luis Buñuel, M. Night Shyamalan, movie reviews, movies, Stalker, The Birds, the exterminating angel, The Happening, TSPDT, Vicenzo Natali
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