Prove This Chair Exists
I’ve been pondering an essay talking about Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure and Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams, but whatever tenuous connection I’d made in my mind never formed into the discussion of perception, knowledge, and reality that I’d envisioned. They lingered in the back of my mind, and today they came back to the fore when my brother put in Spinning Man for us to watch.
Read More…The Futility of Action in Science Horror
I recently rewatched a 1967 Christopher Lee film called Night of the Big Heat (aka Island of the Burning Damned), and its ending got me thinking of the connection between nature and the futility of human action in science fiction movies with a horror bent. This one is going to get spoilery about films, so if that bothers you here’s your chance to bail.
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